@cliffordheath@mastodon.social
Post #1295239
2026-04-03 22:43 UTC
@colinstu I was able to compile C code, play Pacman (fullscreen TUI), or run database code while other users used a sonic digitiser to trace radiographs on an interactive vector graphics screen (Tektronix storage tube), and a plotter made colour drawings or uploaded data files to the supercomputer. Real-time applications...
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@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-04 17:30
@cliffordheath @colinstu I don't understand; in 1976..1979 at UC Berkeley we had a PDP-11/70 with 1 megabyte running initially Unix V6 and later Unix V7 that supported 50 users. It allowed 60 users but was very unresponsive with that many. Perhaps your users were always running resource-intensive apps.