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Article #625504Re: PDP 11/40 system manual
From: Bob Eager
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 22:26
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 22:26
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 22:10:46 +0000, John Levine wrote: > In article > <1028478389.555543171.735142.peter_flass-yahoo.com@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. I agree there, too. Simple enough for an introductory course on assembly language. There's a reason I have two replica PDP-8s, and am building a third! -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
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