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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.rsts
Subject: Re: Anyone out there?
Keywords: rsts
Message-ID: <6452@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 89 14:10:10 GMT
References: <1245@sagepub.UUCP> <6710@bunny.UUCP> <16133@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <16133@oberon.USC.EDU> kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman) writes:
> In article <6710@bunny.UUCP> sg04@bunny.UUCP (Steven Gutfreund) writes:
> >I used to work in the RSTS/e operating system group in versions 6 and 7.

Gee, there seem to be more olde RSTS hack here than people with problems.
I guess I'll have to represent the early days: an educational installation
supporting RSTS 2A20 thru version 5 with a little later dabbling with 6?...
Sadly the horror stories of 1971/72 are't of much relevance 17+ years later.

How do you explain to these new kids about special paper tape loops to
put in your teletype cafefully timed to log back in and crash the sytem
only moments after it came back up...

		.......13,13 fish.....& sin(x,) ......
               .                                      .
               .                                      .
                ......................................

Or the wonders of 512K fixed head disk drives, or backing up your
monster RK05 pack on ~10 DECtapes with rollin/rollout - or the time
DEC came down and put a bunch of little memory write lock switches
dangling on wires out the front of the PDP-11/20.  Sigh...
out 
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