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From: ihaka@stat.auckland.ac.nz (Ross Ihaka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreebBSD 2.0.5-R crashes every 2 DAYS!!
Date: 26 Jul 1995 23:16:24 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland
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peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>You could always switch to the math/stat machine, an 11/60 with 256kB, where
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>with more than two users running vi nobody could get anything done.
>That one was running Version 6. BSD was too big.
>--
Wow, what a blast from the past!
I administered that machine for a while when I was a graduate student
(it was actually an 11/45). It ran RSTS/E 5 days a week and System 6
two days a week (can you say "nightmare"). In 1980 we switched to
running Version 7 all-day every day.
In fact it was common to find up to 8 graduate students using the
machine, running statistical software, C and ftn (a hacked DEC fortran
compiler). The 128k (separate i&d) address space seem enormous at the time.
I still have very fond memories of the beast.
Ross Ihaka
Statistics Department
University of Auckland
New Zealand