Many things

[Zane H. Healy]

>Please don't take this as a flame, but I am always suprised by the people
>who run classic computers (as opposed to running emulators) and who don't
>want to get into the hardware. To me [1] that's one of the reasons for
>running an old machine.

Trust me, I don't take it as a flame, we just have different area's 
of interest.  My area of interest is primarily in the Operating 
Systems that run on the various platforms, and I'm coming to the 
conclusion that I'm better served by emulators in most cases.  I'd 
really like to dig in and learn the hardware on my PDP-8's, and even 
the -11's at a very low level, but I simply do not have the time.

I think a lot of the problem is that a lot of us are software 
weenies, with varying degrees of competence on the hardware side of 
things.

		Zane


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| Zane H. Healy                    | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary)    | OpenVMS Enthusiast         |
|                                  | Classic Computer Collector |
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|          PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum.         |
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