Post #1295240
2026-04-04 17:30 UTC
@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.
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@adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk 2026-04-04 19:23
@dougmerritt @cliffordheath @colinstu I hand-coded the driver for a PDP11 tape reader and keyed it in using the switches. Which then loaded the OS. It did work. #justSayin
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@cliffordheath@mastodon.social 2026-04-04 20:32
@dougmerritt @colinstu the 11/70 was very different from the 11/34 :). Anyhow it was a research machine, there were no other users