Re: DEC introduces PDP-6 [was Re: IBM introduces System/360]

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From: Rich Alderson
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 20:47

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Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> writes:

> On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 3:50:28 PM UTC-6, John Levine wrote:

>> Good point.  Too bad that DEC sold 20 PDP-6's while IBM sold thousands of 360s.

> But look at all the PDP-8s that DEC shipped!

> John Savard

PDP-8 systems, of any stripe, are irrelevant to a discussion of mainframes! :-)

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