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This is kinda fun for ex-DEC / Digital UK alumni or users - They are making a movie too!

readingmuseum.org.uk/digital60

I found it trying to find old DECUS programmes for the UK/Ireland when we did the annual conferences at Warwick Uni.

#History#UK#Reading
Lorry

1/ Just because, here's my LSI-11 desktop - It works, they used much better capacitors in those days.

Way back when, the LSI-11 was often used to teach people Operating Systems and Compiler Design, and in my CS degree in 1986 we'd fiddle with MINIX on these things, and deal with re-writing different low-level UNIX things. Life was much easier with only 50 instructions to work with.

#DEC#Digital#PDP11

2/ This is why I have never been a fan of Linux, people should be writing their own OSs 😜

As an aside, I found this thread with some familiar names from 1987 about porting Minix to the Atari - I assume that would have been the ST then.

linux.co.cr/unix-source-code/r

#DEC#Digital#PDP11

@Lorry Atari created a Unix dist for the Atari TT - which being 68030 based of course was quite a bit more capable. I don't really know much about Minix but plain 68000 without MMU sounds difficult :)

atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?

@Lorry Wait, so you had Minix running on an LSI-11? I remember Comer's Xinu was developed on an LSI-11 but I never heard about a Minix port.

@me_ I THINK it was an LSI-11 but I wouldn't completely swear to it, it was 40 years ago - It may have been a PDP. Now you mention it, I suspect it was because there would have been other communications obstacles to it being an LSI-11 too.

I suppose I should look at Google for accuracy :)

@Lorry love the cardboard box. Here to keep it company is a pic of my old X terminal (netbooted from my server via PXE code on a floppy), resplendent in its burgundy "case".

@qmacro Pineapple boxes are incredibly underrated for their main other purpose as equipment chassis!

@Lorry I remember someone at one of my workplaces getting one for home so many years ago. I did a lot of PDP-11 assembler years ago.