As a student I worked at a lab, and had a PDP-11/10 all to myself. But of course I desired more. I heard such wonderful things about the 11/34. Six years later I worked for a small company that was able to purchase a PDP-11/70 running RSTS/E. I had died and gone to heaven!!
My high school had a /34 running RSTS/E, with roughly a dozen terminals on-campus, mostly in the lab. Even in 1980, I recall my teacher warning about Y2K, though not yet named as such. Fast forward 20+ years, and I would set up SIMH, install RSTS/E on it, and discover that version 7.0, which was what I used at the time, was not Y2K-compatible.
As a student I worked at a lab, and had a PDP-11/10 all to myself. But of course I desired more. I heard such wonderful things about the 11/34. Six years later I worked for a small company that was able to purchase a PDP-11/70 running RSTS/E. I had died and gone to heaven!!
My high school had a /34 running RSTS/E, with roughly a dozen terminals on-campus, mostly in the lab. Even in 1980, I recall my teacher warning about Y2K, though not yet named as such. Fast forward 20+ years, and I would set up SIMH, install RSTS/E on it, and discover that version 7.0, which was what I used at the time, was not Y2K-compatible.
Out of curiosity, what were those wonderful things you were hearing about the 11/34 back then?
WebAssembly version with photo-realistic GUI. Run a PDP-11/34 in your browser:
https://dbrll.github.io/ll-34/
This was probably how our universe got started...
No, it was here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
Naa, was here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
I mean: the universe is a simulation that began with some dude's side project to build a subatomic-level simulator.