Stupid Amiga Tricks

From: der Mouse <mouse_at_Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
Date: Fri Jun 11 23:43:46 2004

>> Heh. When I first came to Montreal, we had a VAX running VMS,
>> supporting the whole lab. Multitasking.

>> I don't know how much RAM it had, but more than 8M would surprise
>> me. This _was_ 1980. Heck, we had only about 30M of _disk_!

> The 11/750 [...]

> But VMS 3.x will run in 2MB for certain... not sure about VMS 4.0.

I think this was 3.x. Fuzzy memory says 3.6, 3.7, something like that.

> Not sure what you would have had in the lab in 1980, but it was
> probably an 11/780.

Oh, yes, definitely a 780. I remember _that_ much. Somewhat later, we
got some 750s; that was about the time we first got a real Unix in -
BSD 4.1c; later, BSD 4.2....

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