[TenTec] Re: Highlights of German Orion Review

[Steve Baron - KB3MM]

AH!  Good ole VMS on VAXen.  Even
RSX11M on the 11 family was pretty good.

Was the 11 the first computer with the orthogonal instruction set or did DEC
get that from some one else ?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Westerman" <Rick at dj0ip.de>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 21:23
Subject: RE: [TenTec] Re: Highlights of German Orion Review


> Mario, now you are mixing politics with computers!
>
> VMS, as well as NT was not developed by Bill Carter, nor by Jimmy
> Clinton ;-)
>
> In fact it was David N. Cutler.
>
> To be exact, Dave was NT's chief architecture, but he was really
> only 1/3 of the VMS design team.  The other two were Dick
> Hustvedt and Peter Lipman.  The overall project was driven by
> Gordon Bell.  As you said, the devil is in the details!
>
> As for details in tests, believe me, the Germans do it in as much
> detail as you might wish (too much for my liking).  The first
> ORION test was not the thorough test (what you guys call the
> extended test) but rather just the operational part of the test.
>
> 73
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Marijan
> Miletic, S56A
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 9:34 PM
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] Re: Highlights of German Orion Review
>
> KB3MM> You haven't stressed it enough. <gr>
>
> I am still in shock as I expected XP level of performance from
> Bill Carter's
> NT just like VAX VMS was a good product!
>
> Last time I had memeory errors was when developing my own 100 MHz
> FPGA
> board...
>
> Not strictly Tentec subject so let's add 20 dB attenuation to
> KC1SX S5
> example in order to reduce IMD3 products by 60 dB.
> Weak 160 m signals should be above high level of natural noise in
> the order
> of 40 dB.
> Tough weak DX-ing is on 2 m band but that is not pursued much in
> USA.
>
> 73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU
>
> P.S.  Main difference between DL and UK/USA approach:  God/Devil
> is in the
> details!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marijan Miletic, S56A" <s56a at bit.si>
> To: <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 10:30
> Subject: [TenTec] Re: Highlights of German Orion Review
> > NU1U> Windows; been running Windows XP Pro for over two years.
> Hasn't
> > crashed yet.....
> >
> > Same case here!  Remarkable performance for such a complex
> software
> product.
> > I had two hardware memory errors recently...
> >
> > 73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU
> >
>
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