On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 12:29 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 1/3/22 11:50 AM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: > > I'll agree with that. We used to run 40-50 users on our 8MB 11/750 > > (with both CMI and Unibus disk) but it did do some swapping over 8-10 > > users. > > You obviously didn't use the Ada compiler. :-) > > Or Eunice, for that matter.
Hell no! 90% of our work was in C, the rest in m68k assembler (our own), VAX MACRO, or FORTRAN. We started off with Whitesmith's C then by the late 80s also used DEC's VAX C. Compiling all the code for our product took the 11/750 6 hours to compile and link plus an additional 2 hours for an 11/730 to link under a different version of VMS. 8 hours total to rebuild totally from source. Some things about the good old days weren't so good. -ethan
