Bad Classic Operating Systems (was: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers)

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Mon Apr 22 19:58:01 2002

Loboyko Steve wrote:
>
> I've been playing with my clone PDP-8's OS-8
> installation, and I would say at first glance that you
> might think it was awful, but when you consider that
> it is running in 32K (x 12 bits, but still...) of RAM,
> has highly "regular" commands, has installable device
> drivers, and has a large degree of device independence
> it's really very amazing. I could say the same thing
> about Flex for the 6800 and 09. Considering their
> severely limited resources, pretty darned good.
And fast too!

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