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From: rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Not only HP makes a mess !
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Date: 22 Dec 90 19:47:36 GMT
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In article <1990Dec19.170128.5038@ccs.carleton.ca>, holtz@cascade.carleton.ca (Neal Holtz) writes:

  This user thinks you did a great job.  Our first Apollos came very early in 1984
  (DN300's and DSP80's with SMD's).  A few of these are still running (SR9.7 still).
  My first Apollo program was a simple graphics program.  I still use it daily on
  my DN2500.  It was last compiled in 1984, having gone from SR7 (I believe) to SR10.2
  without recompiling or relinking.

I think support for sr8 Unix programs (AUX, before Domain/IX) has been
discontinued.  I don't have any of these around so I'm not sure what happens
if you try to run them.

My oldest binary is a version of use_font timestamped Oct 11 1981.  It still
runs on my sr10.3 dn4500.

I just tried running a program on our Vax that was last compiled in
September 1981, on bsd4.1.  It didn't work:

% cv -hd f
sorry, pid 21217 was killed: exec: error reading data area
Killed
%

On a related note, what's the oldest running Apollo node?  When I left it
was //eve, node id 8.  The Computer Museum in Boston has node id 3, with
wire-wrap boards, but it wasn't running when I saw it.

Anyone remember /sau/demo?