From: gordon+usenet@drogon.net   
      
   In article , mm0fmf   wrote:   
   >I used a Prime750 at Uni. But only undergrad tasks in Prime BASIC and   
   >some Fortran. It seemed quite fast at the time in timeshare mode with   
   >plenty of undergrads using it. But the CPU was only as fast as an 8MHz   
   >68000!   
      
   I used Primes at uni too - starting with the 550 in 1980 but it was   
   woefully underpowered for us - I think we might well have been the first   
   intake of students who'd already had 1 or 2 years experience of micros   
   at school by then (Apple II in my case). I felt that the Apple II could   
   have run rings round the Prime. We were doing mostly COBOL, Pascal and   
   FORTRAN. Also some assembler.   
      
   Their systems were archaic - we had to write the programs on coding forms,   
   it was typed in by "the girls" then submitted to the batch system and   
   if we were lucky we'd get it back the following day.   
      
   Eventually they relented and hooked up a room of TTY33s for us to do   
   our own edits on.. But really that just made it worse. Upgraded to a   
   750 then eventually 9950s but by then it was really too late...   
      
   Fortunately I also found a PDP11/40 tucked away in a little room running   
   Unix...   
      
   Gordon   
      
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