[Coco] HP64000 was Re: LIF util for OS-9?

[John Kent]

On 3/11/2011 8:20 PM, Willard Goosey wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 04:26:11PM +1100, John Kent wrote:
>> I used a HP64000 for software development for the 68000 back in the
>> 1980s.
> Cool.  What was your impression of it?  Better or worse than the VAX?

It was a single user operating system. When you listed the directory it 
had to think a bit before it listed the files. The emulator used a 
context sensitive hotkey system that was quite well thought out.


>> Were I was working boaught a VAX11-730 for software development
>> although compiles for the 68000 were just as fast on the HP64000 as they
>> were on the VAX.
> I've always had the impression that the early VAXen were not exactly
> speed demons.

We were using Boston System Office assemblers which seemed to be rather 
slow.

>> We had the HP64000 connected to the VAX. We had VT220
>> terminals connected to VAX. There were 50 engineers in the department.
>> Systems administration was pretty adhoc back then.
> It was a different era.

Yeah ... well the over wrote the magnetic tape holding much of the 
system project source code which wasn't real good. No backups. They 
weren't very well organized back then.

John.

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