Can root mount a partition and allow users to write to it?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 06:41:50PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Indeed. I have a Digital Multia, once worth thousands, only kept as its
> case engineering is so pretty.
> 
> Were I to get an SGI Indy, I rather think the best use would be as a case
> for an espresso machine.

I like my Indys (yes I have two). :)

> DND: MARLANT went to heroic lengths, but were forced, in the end, to shut
> down the last MULTICS system in 2000.  I expect that the disk drives had
> been out of production for twenty or so years.   This was pretty big
> trouble, as there isn't yet a MULTICS emulator, so software running on it
> had to get rewritten.  (Sources now available...  Anyone got a PL/1
> compiler?
> http://web.mit.edu/multics-history/source/Multics_Internet_Server/Multics_sources.html)
> 
> 
> Heroics were fairly worthwhile, as these were multi-million dollar
> computers.  (Albeit likely with less CPU power and storage than is found on
> the average smartphone these days.  Original specs for GE-645s involved
> approximately 1 MIPS, 256K words (36 bit words), 200MB disk spindles, so
> your cell phone is massively more capacious.)
> 
> Most pointedly, it isn't much worthwhile to put heroic efforts into
> preservation of computer hardware that was cheaply built and that is wildly
> inferior, under a multiplicity of metrics, to newer stuff.

Sounds like fun.

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