[rescue] Rescued VAX 4500 question

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Mon Jun 10 11:35:24 CDT 2002


On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:31:47PM -0400, Loomis, Rip wrote:
> > It's not my 8/I, but maybe the -8 information is of interest to 
> > the denizens of this list - even though these systems are of no
> > practical value whatsoever these days.
> 
> All right, let's start the "anchor pool" on how long it takes
> for Dave McGuire to 1.   Read the above and 2.  Explode [[BOOM!]]
> 
> I might have said "limited utility these days".

I don't think I've ever heard Dave suggest that we try to use a -8 for
real work in this day and age.  It could be used for typesetting,
emailing, and web browsing, but I doubt he would want to, or else he
would be using a new FPGA based -8 clone instead of a G4.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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