On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Miguel A Paraz wrote: > Someone should sketch out the history of computing in the Philippines. > Fascinating stuff. > > On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 14:06:24 +0800, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps it was BSD UNIX on a VAX 11/780? I believe PAEC already had > > one at that time (so said some of my elders..) and I know PNOC had an > > 11/780 with this huge array processor dedicated for FFT's and based on > > AMD 2911 (?) bitslice CPUs.
Well way back in 1972 or 74 (can't recall), DLSC had access to a minicomputer through Stanford Microsystems (300 bps dial up). And when La Salle finally got their own PDP 8i, UST had access to it by dialing to La Salle over a 300 bps modem with an accoustic coupler.. Until then, a PDP-11/34 was acquired through a donation around 76 to 78 time. Unfortunately, the operating system of the PDP 11 was RSTS/E, although to the Unix oldies, they do know that Unix was first written in a PDP 8 and later ported to PDP 11. When I was in an England polytechnic 15 years ago, I was able to 'acquire' a 9 track tape of the BSD system 7 for PDP-11. Fortunately I was able to load it on a PDP 11/24 (booting from tape takes forever)... and for those fortunate enough to still see and use an original VT100 terminal, there is a smooth scrolling mode. The smooth scrolling mode literally hides the speed of the computer -- an ls takes 1 second per line!!! -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
