building a PDP11 from the things you find at home

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_bg-tc-ppp382.monmouth.com>
Date: Thu Jul 26 19:06:45 2001

-spc (Have compiler, will program ... said:
>
> True, but there are some of us that are more interested in old software
> than the hardware. I for one, love to study old operating systems and see
> just how much has been lost to time in the onslaught of Microsoft and Unix
> (the two worst things to happen to the industry but some might argue about
> the Unix bit 8-)
>
> -spc (Have compiler, will program ... )

No arguments from this ex-DEC Field Grunt turned Unix Sysadmin.
Actually, I'll live with BSD but SysV with the self-destruct filesystem
made me like the VMS Mount verification in progress message a lot.

Bill

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