On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 06:49:23PM -0700, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> I really hate to see systems that can run VMS wasted running Unix.
I can appreciate the sentiment, but at one point, historically, a VAX
running some variant of BSD was the touchstone of compatibility if you
were writing stuff for UNIX (cf. the "All The World's a VAX" syndrome
in C programming for a long time).
Of course, if you want to run old apps (or games like Larn), any modern
UNIXy platform will run the app.
I still have a killer app for UNIX on a MASSBUS machine - music played
on a TU78. I never got the chance to run the program on our big 11/750
(it ran VMS only, as our departmental mail/word processing/development
machine), and our little 11/750 didn't have a MASSBUS card in any of the
MASSBUS slots (just a second Unibus and/or an SI9900 controller).
I've always wanted to hear that tape drive "sing".
-ethan
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