Subject: Re: A pdp-11 on eBay which had DOS loaded...
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Carl Lowenstein <cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/23/2001 22:42:20
> From port-vax-owner-clowenst=ucsd.edu@netbsd.org Sat Jun 23 13:42 PDT 2001
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> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 16:41:49 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Vance Dereksen <vance@ikickass.org>
> To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
> cc: jonl@yubyub.net, port-vax@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: A pdp-11 on eBay which had DOS loaded...
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> 
> Either that, or he really thought the machine was a mainframe, and he
> thought it was DOS/VSE.  MS-DOS is not DOS.  MS-DOS is MS-DOS.  DOS is
> DOS.  DOS is a mainframe operating system from the mid/late 60s.

Just as a historical note, I used to run PDP-11 DOS on my 11/20 and
11/40 systems back around 1973-74 or so.  It was quickly replaced
by RT-11 when that became available, even though RT-11 did not have
UIDs and GIDs (PPNs).

    carl
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