it strikes me as really odd that there wasn't really a "good" unix for the IBM PC compatibles for a long time
there was xenix but you couldn't actually buy it
the PDP-11 is roughly comparable to the original PC, (16-bit, 256k of memory as an option, secondary storage), so the 5150 seems an acceptable target platform
Needless to say I do love #Terminals and I an working on a Distro optimized for 80x25 setups named OS/1337, which is very minimalist und anti-Stallmanist. https://os1337.com
They are a "dumb" appliance that doesn't retain actual data and only provides an interface to an actual computer that does all the computing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kXnsvYfaF4
vim is my code editor of choice. writing tool of choice. config tweaker. UI mockup tool. and on and on...
my latest game under dev (Slartboz, in Golang) is written 100% using vim. and Slartboz itself is a curses-based program which runs in a Unixy terminal & shell. like vim
few perfectly good & truly wonderful things in our world. vim is among them
Many, many years ago in the building containing the UCLA ARPANET (the Internet's ancestor) Lab where ARPANET host #1 resided, there were a bunch of long serial line cables that ran from the computer room (we called them "machine rooms" back then) to the relatively distant graduate student/staff work area cubicles with their own CRT terminals.
Due to the length and condition of those serial lines, the maximum speed typically was 1200 bps. In the computer room, so close to the systems, we ran at 9600 or 19200.
I proposed to the building facilities team that new, higher quality serial cables be pulled so that we could bump up the speeds in the cubicles to similar speeds that we had in the computer room itself.
This took more convincing than I had originally anticipated, because the initial response I got was that the upgrade was unnecessary, since "nobody could read faster than 1200 bps anyway." -L
I took my first uni #CS course as a night class while I was in high school. We used #DECWriter#printer#terminals connected to an ancient #VAX - the terminals were laughably out-of-date even at that time (mid-#80s).
They could only print 30 chars/s, so they topped out at 300 baud.