[TriLUG] Ancient Unix (was: Re: The way we were, etc. )

mark at thefowles.com mark at thefowles.com
Thu Nov 17 13:34:48 EST 2005


They sad part is I remember when it was all State of the art --  I started
with a basic programming class back in 1970 -- then on to IBM, Univacs,
Boroughs and DEC (ah... TOps10, 20 and then to the best OS ever -- VMS)
:-)

- Mark


> Rick DeNatale wrote:
>
>> I started out with computers back in 1971 at the University of
>> Connecticut, where I had exposure to both the IBM and DEC worlds.  My
>> first class involving programming used an IBM 1620 Model I for Fortran
>> II.
>
> All this talk about vintage programming enviroments reminded me of an
> excellent article in this month's Linux Journal called "Unix: Old School":
>
> http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/article/8547
>
> It describes how to download old, old, old Unix images from SCO and run
> them on PDP emulators like SIMH:
>
> http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/article/8587
> http://simh.trailing-edge.com/
>
> I eat this stuff up. :-)
>
> Mark Turner
> www.markturner.net
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