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From: cjc@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Chris Calabrese[rs])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: How Soon They Forget...
Summary: Yes, we have one
Message-ID: <3357@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 25 Jan 88 17:06:09 GMT
References: <509@gtx.com> <22726@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <22726@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP writes:
> In the referenced article, al@gtx.UUCP (Al Filipski) writes:
> 
> 	"UNIX? Nosireebob, I'm waiting for it to come out on an
> 	S-100 machine with 8-1/2 inch floppies."
> 
> and then I looked in vain for the rejoinder...
> 
> Doesn't ANYONE remember the Dual System 83? It was the first 68000
> based UNIX (a V7 kernel with 2.8 BSD utilities, introduced in
> November 1981), and it did indeed use the S-100 (IEEE-696) bus,
> and 8-1/2 inch floppy drives.


Yes, we use a Dual System 83/86 (a modified version of the
orig. 83 (i.e. more memory, faster drives, and memory managment))
at Bennington College.
It's a bit slow, but not too bad for a fossil.

	Christopher Calabrese
	AT&T Bell Labs and Bennington College
	ulysses!cjc