Sellam Ismail wrote:
> I wonder if my DPS-6 could run Multics? I would like to think it has to
> have some coolness factor other than being big and impressive :)
Sellam, what OS are you running on your DPS-6? About a decade ago
(that long ago already?), there was a DPS-6 sharing a computer room
with a VAX-4000 (which had been a MicroVAX 3xxx before they upgraded
the CPU, removed the MicroVAX 3xxx insignia and glued on the VAX 4000
insigna) where I worked. The OS running on that DPS-6 was the
Ultimate OS (based on the Pick OS, iirc) and ran applications written
in BASIC.
Somewhere, I've got a stack of documentation pertaining to the
software that ran on the DPS-6. Funny thing, what I remember most
fondly about that system was the sound made by the CDC 9" (I think)
hard drive in an external cabinet. The DPS-6 system itself was a
large, double 19" rack, that was more empty space than utilized space;
one rack contained the open-reel magtape drive, the other contained
the card-cage and 5-1/4" floppy drive. A person could, literally,
have opened up one of the back doors of the cabinets and climbed
inside.
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Received on Tue Oct 31 2000 - 21:54:35 GMT