super duper uberthread

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 11:01 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > >>> That ain't nuttin'. We started with an 11/45 with 48KB of core memory
> > >>> and 2 RK05's (2.2MB removable cartridge disks).
> 
> Ha! At FAU the engineering department had a Data General
> Nova with only 8KB of core memory, and an ASR-33 TTY
> with a paper tape attachment as the only I/O device :-).

Had one of those in my first job. The OS was so terrible the guy I
worked for wrote his own multitasking kernel for it, which we used for
one of the first computer typesetting systems (Cambridge University
Press 1972 :-) All done in BCPL (ancestor of C).

poc