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MINC-11

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From: jba... Jerry B. Altzman
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1990 00:13
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Anyone out there remember the old DEC MINC-11's? Up until about a year ago,
we were still using them at Columbia University's (presitigious?) Nevis
Labs doing testing on transport crates. They ran some perversion on RSTS/E
I think, and we even had a FORTRAN compiler on it. It ran on one of the
boards slapped together in a few days by some of the people up there.

I didn't get too much experience writing code on it, except for some
device-driver type software, but I do remember someone accidentally
deleting a summer's worth of work before realizing that we DIDN'T indeed
have the source backed up (all we had left was the executable). I even
remember the expression on my face when I was asked if I wanted to
reverse-engineer it back into FORTRAN....

DISCLAIMER: This isn't Columbia. This is me. Columbia is them.

//jbaltz
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