On 7/4/25 11:07, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
We had a TU77 on a VAX 11/780. (Should have waited for the TU78.)
Maybe not. IIRC, the TU78 had a bunch of teething problems. I
definitely remember many 2 AM phone calls from the night shift operators
when the overnight backup runs failed
In those days, FORTRAN IV was handy as a "portable" language just
because it was the one language (other than COBOL) available
*everywhere*. It could be used as a sort of "high level assembler" too.
My first job out of college was working on a large database system. It
was written using a pr
On 2/19/25 17:38, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
One of most ingenious coding tricks to me was the problem of saving and
restoring all registers without resorting to an exchange jump. We used
that one as a test for applicants.
Argh... I know I've seen this trick, but it's been too many years
On 2/17/25 12:30, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
One of most ingenious coding tricks to me was the problem of saving and
restoring all registers without resorting to an exchange jump. We used
that one as a test for applicants.
Argh... I know I've seen this trick, but it's been too many years.
We were a beta test site for NOS/VE and the hardware (Cyber 180?). CDC
sent the machine and a software support engineer to help us do something
with it. My one recollection was that the command language was horribly
awkward, but I didn't spend much time on the system.
I know there are some m
By the time frame mentioned in the article (1981) there were many
commercially available applications. There was also hardware (e.g. from
DEC, DG, HP) that was of a scale where it would be dedicated to one
application. At that time I worked for a company that developed a
database system. I c
On 1/4/24 19:34, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
I think the CDC 6000 Algol 68 is still around somewhere. That one was created
in Holland.
There is NOS/BE install for DtCyber available from retro1.org. It
includes binaries of both Algol 60 and Algol 68 compilers.
Gary
On 3/10/23 12:26, Lee Courtney via cctalk wrote:
Mainframe - Minicomputer = RAS and order magnitude better I/O
That I think is the best distinction from the minicomputer era.
Even within the same system architecture (e.g. VAX's) there were
machines that were solidly mini's and those that ten
On 4/29/22 10:45, Dennis Grevenstein wrote:
Hi,
just recently I found this archive:
https://vetusware.com/download/OSF1%20Source%20Code%201.10/?id=11574
Cool!
this is a package of source code for DEC OSF/1 V 1.0. I knew that this is
supposed to run on DECstations (with MIPS), in fact I hav
On 2/18/22 15:35, Paul Koning wrote:
On Feb 18, 2022, at 3:18 PM, Gary Grebus wrote:
On 2/18/22 09:46, Paul Koning wrote:
...The 9000 also had its own I/O bus, XMI, different from BI. I don't know how
its performance compares, whether it was worth the effort.
XMI already existed as the
On 2/18/22 09:46, Paul Koning wrote:
On Feb 18, 2022, at 7:08 AM, Joerg Hoppe via cctalk
wrote:
Hi,
my computer club c-c-g.de could acquire the remains of a VAX9000 !
The machine ran at the GWDG computing center in G?ttingen, Germany, around 1993.
Parts of it were in stock of their museum
On 12/14/21 12:25 PM, Joerg Hoppe wrote:
Full micro fiche scans of VAX/VMS 4.0/4.1 source listings are now
published at
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/microfiche/vms-source-listings/AH-BT13A-SE__VAX-VMS_V4.0_SRC_LST_MCRF/AH-BT13A-SE__VAX-VMS_V4.0_SRC_LST_MCRF/
Thanks for doing this! It
On 2/24/21 3:27 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
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>> On Feb 24, 2021, at 9:08 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk
>> wrote:
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>> On 24/02/2021 03:26, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
>>> Does anyone have contact information for the proprietor of this site:
>>> http://www.activityclub.org/decnotes/
>>>
On 3/17/19 15:36, Chris Hanson wrote:
> I recently acquired a DECimage X terminal, which is theoretically a VXT-2000
> with an add-on 2D accelerator. Unfortunately while the terminal is badges as
> a DECimage it didn?t include the board, just a frame buffer.
>
You may not find any software that
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