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Article #625505Re: PDP 11/40 system manual
From: Peter Flass
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 11:34
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 11:34
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John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote: > 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 /67 had full 32-bit addressing, which (IMHO) is the way they should have gone with later models. > > The PDP-8, on the other hand, was close to perfectly elegant. > -- Pete
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