On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Clem Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > Also if you are > bootstrapping from something else (like a large timesharing system from > another manufacturer). You might put your tools on the other system, until > the new system could "self host."
IIRC, they felt lucky to have the PDP-7, at the beginning it was all they had access to (easily). For William's benefit, in those times computers were (chronically) few in number. Anyone from that era will remember the endless booking problems getting time on a machine of any size. If you were willing to do the graveyard shift you gained a small amount of scheduling flexibility (if the machine wasn't down for maintenance / resting etc). _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
