LorryFeb 11, 2025

This is kinda fun for ex-DEC / Digital UK alumni or users - They are making a movie too!

https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/digital60

I found it trying to find old DECUS programmes for the UK/Ireland when we did the annual conferences at Warwick Uni.

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Reading's DIGITAL Revolution

A ground-breaking exhibition charting the rise of Reading’s role in the UK’s ‘Silicon Valley’ is set to open in March 2025. We are in the final stages of researching and presenting Reading’s DIGITAL Revolution, a major project celebrating the diamond jubilee of the computer company Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) opening its first UK office in Reading - a moment that would redefine the future of our town and region. You can find out more about the project by viewing the Reading’s DIGITAL Revolution trailer film, produced with our project partners at the National Museum of Computing thanks to a generous grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Reading Museum
Show threadLorry

1/ Just because, here's my LSI-11 desktop - It works, they used much better capacitors in those days.

Way back when, the LSI-11 was often used to teach people Operating Systems and Compiler Design, and in my CS degree in 1986 we'd fiddle with MINIX on these things, and deal with re-writing different low-level UNIX things. Life was much easier with only 50 instructions to work with.

#DEC #Digital #PDP11 #LSI11 #Minix #Linux #OperatingSystems #Capacitors #USENET #Atari #AtariST #RetroComputing

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Show threadLorryFeb 11, 2025

2/ This is why I have never been a fan of Linux, people should be writing their own OSs 😜

As an aside, I found this #USENET thread with some familiar names from 1987 about porting Minix to the Atari - I assume that would have been the ST then.

https://www.linux.co.cr/unix-source-code/review/1987/0108.html

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MINIX - From the mouth of the horse

Show threadTroed SångbergFeb 11, 2025

@Lorry Atari created a Unix dist for the Atari TT - which being 68030 based of course was quite a bit more capable. I don't really know much about Minix but plain 68000 without MMU sounds difficult :)

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=9629

Show threadDiane BruceFeb 11, 2025
@Lorry I remember someone at one of my workplaces getting one for home so many years ago. I did a lot of PDP-11 assembler years ago.
Show threadDJ AdamsFeb 11, 2025
@Lorry love the cardboard box. Here to keep it company is a pic of my old X terminal (netbooted from my server via PXE code on a floppy), resplendent in its burgundy "case".
Show threadLorryFeb 11, 2025
@qmacro Pineapple boxes are incredibly underrated for their main other purpose as equipment chassis!
Show threadMichael EngelFeb 11, 2025
@Lorry Wait, so you had Minix running on an LSI-11? I remember Comer's Xinu was developed on an LSI-11 but I never heard about a Minix port.
Show threadLorryFeb 11, 2025

@me_ I THINK it was an LSI-11 but I wouldn't completely swear to it, it was 40 years ago - It may have been a PDP. Now you mention it, I suspect it was because there would have been other communications obstacles to it being an LSI-11 too.

I suppose I should look at Google for accuracy :)