Fav. Operating System
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Any oldies out there? What was your favourite operating system? Years ago before I migrated to Windows back in late '93, when I was using QuickC for Windows, my working platform for McDonnel Douglas's PICK operating system. The only software house outside of the UK, we were the only guys we wrote our own 'userexits' or assembly routines to get optimum performance for string nhandling routines. Arrrh PICK, those days where good, shame they didn't have a GUI, just 24x80 green on black screens. Norm
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Any oldies out there? What was your favourite operating system? Years ago before I migrated to Windows back in late '93, when I was using QuickC for Windows, my working platform for McDonnel Douglas's PICK operating system. The only software house outside of the UK, we were the only guys we wrote our own 'userexits' or assembly routines to get optimum performance for string nhandling routines. Arrrh PICK, those days where good, shame they didn't have a GUI, just 24x80 green on black screens. Norm
Well ... Back in the 70's, I used to maintain some machines called PDP 5 and PDP 11. Imagine working with 32 K of memory, only one input device called paper tape, only one output device called a tele-printer (it was really an old telex machine with it's exterior methal shell replaced with shiny plastic) and this dinosaur operated an X-Ray flourescence machine and it ran 7/24. That was way cool :) The 8K memory BOARDS, and you needed four of them, where about 20x14 inches in size and had something like a mile of extremely fine wire on them. Disturb the wire and the board was toast! Chris
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Well ... Back in the 70's, I used to maintain some machines called PDP 5 and PDP 11. Imagine working with 32 K of memory, only one input device called paper tape, only one output device called a tele-printer (it was really an old telex machine with it's exterior methal shell replaced with shiny plastic) and this dinosaur operated an X-Ray flourescence machine and it ran 7/24. That was way cool :) The 8K memory BOARDS, and you needed four of them, where about 20x14 inches in size and had something like a mile of extremely fine wire on them. Disturb the wire and the board was toast! Chris