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From: Berry Kercheval kerch@par...
Subject: The future of Plan9?
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 09:04:41 PDT

>>>bwong@arf... said:
 > That is true.  When I worked at Bell Labs in 1985, they were leasing
 > lots of hp2621 terminals.  There was an hp2621 emulator for the Blit
 > and I expect the Plan9 version to be a descendant.
 
In the early 80's the hp2621 was one of the best ASCII terminals you could 
get.  No, one of the best *terminals*, there wasn't much else! The -P model 
even had a built-in thermal printer.

My company (not Xerox, then) bought about 20 of them to go with our spankin' 
new hot-stuff PDP-11/70 with PWB 1.0.

Sigh.  The Sparc-10 on my desk has 96 Mbytes and that 11/70 had just 4, yet it 
could support 30-40 users and I can drive the SParc-10 into thrashing all by 
myself.  

  --berry "and we had to chisel the ones out of stone, too, and we *liked* it..."

Berry Kercheval :: kerch@par... :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Cent
er