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From: John Levine
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 22:10

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In article <1028478389.555543171.735...@news.eternal-september.org>,
Peter Flass  <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> Thanks. Unbounded nostalgia. Was there ever a more elegant computer than a
>>>> PDP-11?
>>> 
>>> Yes, many.
>> 
>> *Not* that I disagree...  but which other computers do you find elegant???
>
>System/360.

The S/360 was a tour de force but it had plenty of uglies that people
have been dealing with ever since, the worst of which was 24 bit
addressing.

The PDP-8, on the other hand, was close to perfectly elegant.

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