final brainteaser for the day

From: Jerome H. Fine <jhfinepw4z_at_compsys.to>
Date: Tue Jun 25 09:16:35 2002

>Alex White wrote:

> > On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 23:43, Tony Duell wrote:
> > > Alex White wrote:
> > > Can you describe all the PDP OSen and variants out there?
> > _ALL_ of them???? You are joking, right?
> Nope.

Jerome Fine replies:

Well, in that case, ...

> > Various languages including their own OS (Single user BASIC, Multi-user
> > BASIC, MINC BASIC, Forth, etc)
> Forth! There's a bootable forth around? That'd be fantastic...

YEP!! I don't have it available right now, but others have a reference for
you.

> > And you want me to _describe_ all of those...
> I think I should have said 'list'.
> Alex

I think that would be much more appropriate.

IN ADDITION, I JUST NOTICED YOU ASKED FOR:

DRUM ROLL, FIREWORKS, ENTERPRISE GOING TO WARP!!

PDP in general, as opposed to PDP-11 which everyone has
been focused upon. Did you mean PDP-11 ONLY - OR
dod you actually want a list of all PDP systems? While just
the list for PDP-11 would occupy a whole VERY LARGE
chapter in a book, such a list for ALL PDP would occupy
a VERY LARGE book.

Perhaps I exaggerate just a bit since just a list with one line
to specify only the name of the OSen would probably not
be too extreme - it depends on what you mean by variants.

Sincerely yours,

Jerome Fine
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