Re: PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire(at)neurotica(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD
Date: 2014-06-29 19:44:22
Message-ID: 53B06C96.2070209@neurotica.com
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On 06/29/2014 03:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Hey, right up the river from here!
>
>> Come on up and hack! There's always something neat going on around
>> here. Ever run a PDP-11? B-)
>
> There were so many PDP-11s around CMU when I was an undergrad that
> I remember seeing spare ones being used as doorstops ;-). I even
> got paid to help hack on this:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.mmp
>
> So nah, don't want to do it any more. Been there done that.

Ah well, more for me then. I cut my teeth on PDP-11s 30yrs ago, and I
always find it therapeutic to fire one up today. I have a biggish
commercial building and am putting together a computer museum up here.
Right now it's only "privately open", and we have hack workshops and
stuff to get things running. There are about sixty racks in here.

It's awesome that you worked on C.mmp. I saw that machine in person a
few weeks ago. I'd love to discuss that with you a bit off-list if you
can spare the time.

-Dave

--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3
New Kensington, PA

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