A stroll down memory lane (NPI...) - Delni's DECNet, Multinet, Frisbee with disk platters...
Mark At 01:03 PM 3/26/2010, Dave wrote: >The DEC equipment was great stuff at the time... I did a lot of >automation work in conjunction with DEC 11/23's 11/34's etc. Mostly >for automatic package sorters and order tracking. I had to go through >the training session on how to learn how to drill and tap thicknet >Ethernet.. Cutting edge technology back then. But that was a long >time ago now..... > >I have, I believe, a 11/34 rack in my garage that we never used. It >cost a small fortune when purchased back in the early 80's. I bought >it for a project long ago that was cancelled. It sat in the plant for >years until they decided to scrap it. At the time, I still remembered >the PO price and there was no way I was going to allow them to scrap >such a valuable rack! So I loaded it up into my 1978 Chevy conversion >van while trying not to mark up the red velour interior, the shag >carpetting, or the tinted red mood lights (really). >Now it works great as an electric tool storage rack in my garage. :-) > Remember the DEC VT100s, and what were those giant DEC >terminal/line printers, those things weighed an awful lot. I think >the steel companies sold a lot of material to DEC. > >Dave > > >On 3/26/2010 6:44 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 26 March 2010, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: > > > >> At 10:16 PM 3/25/2010, you wrote: > >> > >>> Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: > >>> > >>>> Ah, VMS. DEC in all it's glory! Still my favorite OS! > >>>> > >>> Very sad! It was so CONSISTENT, if a particular option was in a > >>> particular place, or spelled a certain way, it would be that way > >>> everywhere it appeared! That was wonderful. > >>> > >>> Now that I am a pretty-well converted Linux guy, I can see some of the > >>> places it didn't run all that well. One was if files got too > >>> fragmented, the file system (RMS) would just crash, and the > >>> de-fragmenting was pretty messy, rolling the whole volume to tape and > >>> restoring. > >>> Creating a child process was awfully slow. As memory got bigger, the > >>> page size was way too small, and the page table became a monster. The > >>> Alpha architecture tried to fix the last one, but it only partially > >>> accomplished that. We still have an Alpha system running at work. > >>> I finally retired my home VaxStation-II that I built from boards bought > >>> > >> >from brokers. KA-630, VCB-02. The hard drive croaked. > >> > >>> Jon > >>> > >> We had a VAX 600 running here at the Lab that resided on it's own > >> little network, and it had an uptime of well over 10 years... > >> > >> Mark > >> > > And I once had a CBS supplied PDP-11/23 that self reset itself > several times > > a day, and just plain crashed several more times. DEC field service > > couldn't fix it and they changed everything but the frame rail the serial > > number was on. They couldn't change that because the service contract was > > for that serial number. Because of that one machine, at one affiliates > > site, CBS had to replace every computer at every affiliate. What > forced the > > issue was me blowing up so often that their tech made the mistake of > > offering to trade me his test mule for mine. When he found it wouldn't run > > long enough to be used as a service fixture and the DEC folks in NYC > > couldn't fix it either, they replaced them all with an IBM industrial with > > an ARTIC card. > > > > > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> ---- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > >> Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > >> proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > >> See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Emc-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > >> > >> > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs >proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. >See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. >http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
