Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sun Jul 20 12:40:13 UTC 2008


On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 01:06:58 -0430,
  Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 13:22 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 20:16:33 -0430,
> >   Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I saw it running on an LSI-11 (a minimal PDP-11 with no memory
> > > manegment). It wasn't much use for anything except data capture as it
> > > couldn't have more than 64k of memory.
> > 
> > I used to use a PDP-8e timeshare system with less memory than that. I think
> > the one I used had 4 memory boards each with 4k 12bit words of memory
> > and that it would support up to about 16 simultaneously logged in users.
> 
> Not on Unix I assume. Perhaps some kind of RSTS system?

TSS8. The base OS came from DEC, but one of the university's programmers
significantly hacked on the version we ran.




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