So we are filling up fast on the Friday classes at VCF East 2020, but some instructors are looking for ideas that people really want. So what are topics that everyone wants us to do? -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
I'll just put this out there to everyone in case someone is both qualified and interested in offering such a class. It may be just because I'm frustrated with the lack of history coverage in my graduate level OS class this semester (which started with UNIX in 1967 and continued on to BSD and SysV then to Linux, ahem), but I've become really interested in the OSes used in the past that are not UNIX. Particularly VMS, TOPS-10, TOPS-20 (aka TENEX, I think, originall written by BBN for DEC, not by DEC, TIL), OS/360, Multics and I'm sure there are bunch more! I'm not even embarrased to share that I only recently learned the the PDP-10 was a mainframe and the PDP-11 was minicomputer (I knew the minicomputer part - but naively assumed the PDP-10 was just a revision between the PDP-8 and PDP-11). Very confusing! Maybe a class that combines some history and hands on use (by the teacher... I don't know how we could do by the students - maybe one day!)? Probably on my mind as we shift the focus in the museum towards more and more hands on use. A museum only needs so many UNIX<tm> machines to type ls into, right? On 2/2/2020 10:45 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
So we are filling up fast on the Friday classes at VCF East 2020, but some instructors are looking for ideas that people really want.
So what are topics that everyone wants us to do?
On 2/2/2020 11:33 AM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I'll just put this out there to everyone in case someone is both qualified and interested in offering such a class.
It may be just because I'm frustrated with the lack of history coverage in my graduate level OS class this semester (which started with UNIX in 1967 and continued on to BSD and SysV then to Linux, ahem), but I've become really interested in the OSes used in the past that are not UNIX. Particularly VMS, TOPS-10, TOPS-20 (aka TENEX, I think, originall written by BBN for DEC, not by DEC, TIL), OS/360, Multics and I'm sure there are bunch more!
I'm not even embarrased to share that I only recently learned the the PDP-10 was a mainframe and the PDP-11 was minicomputer (I knew the minicomputer part - but naively assumed the PDP-10 was just a revision between the PDP-8 and PDP-11). Very confusing!
Maybe a class that combines some history and hands on use (by the teacher... I don't know how we could do by the students - maybe one day!)?
Probably on my mind as we shift the focus in the museum towards more and more hands on use. A museum only needs so many UNIX<tm> machines to type ls into, right?
On 2/2/2020 10:45 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
So we are filling up fast on the Friday classes at VCF East 2020, but some instructors are looking for ideas that people really want.
So what are topics that everyone wants us to do?
Its an excellent idea!
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