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|    Message 964 of 1,530    |
|    Dan Cross to Stan Hosdar    |
|    Re: what's classic now?    |
|    02 Jul 21 03:08:15    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46       MSGID: 3:770/100 f7ffd21c       REPLY: 1:229/426 979951B9       TZUTC: 1200       On 30 Jun 2021 at 08:57p, Stan Hosdar pondered and said...                SH> what OS did a pdp-11 run? in particular what OS did cpm (and dos, etc)        SH> emulate with it's .com, .exe and other similar command lines?              Kildall was, I believe, mostly influenced by RSTS/E on the       PDP-11. My guess is that he heard about PIP (Peripheral       Interchange Program) there.              Gates and Allen were familiar with TOPS-10 from using the       PDP-10 at Harvard (and I seem to recall Gates's private       school in Seattle had access to some powerful -- for the       time -- mainframe-class machine, but I may be misremembering).              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)        * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (3:770/100)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/0 18/200 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 124/5016 129/305       SEEN-BY: 153/250 154/10 203/0 220/70 221/0 226/17 30 227/114 702 229/101       SEEN-BY: 229/424 426 428 452 700 981 1016 1017 240/2100 5138 5411       SEEN-BY: 240/5824 5832 5853 249/1 206 317 400 267/800 280/464 5003       SEEN-BY: 282/1038 288/100 292/854 301/1 310/31 317/3 320/219 322/757       SEEN-BY: 340/1000 342/200 396/45 423/120 460/58 633/280 712/848 770/1       SEEN-BY: 770/100 330 340 772/210 220 230 2452/250 2454/119       PATH: 770/100 1 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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