[HECnet] Test ping

[John Wilson]

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>

It's just such an amazingly bad match for that type of hardware
architecture.   *shudder*

Yeah we had it at RPI and it was insanely slow.   Sometimes it would drop
you during login because it couldn't process your username/password within
the 60-second timeout.   And the software BS didn't help.   The C compiler
was High-C and it had all kinds of bugs including choking on its own
#include files.

Another side of the same mainframe ran MTS (from UMich) and a lot of people
never got over the culture shock, but it sure ran like a bat outta hell!
So it wasn't a slow computer, unless they horribly misconfigured the VM
AIX/370 was in, I guess.

John Wilson
D Bit

P.S. I wrote the ROM half of PD.SYS for E11's new PDT-11/150 emulation and
now I'm working on the PDT-11/130 (TU58 with mutated DLV11) version for
good measure ... but slightly sidetracked attempting Terak stuff.   I guess
this release is going to be all about the weird LSI-11-based micros!