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Article #625522Re: PDP 11/40 system manual
From: Bob Eager
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 21:52
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 21:52
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On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 17:47:11 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 15:31:31 -0500, Charles Richmond wrote: >> >> On 8/9/2018 1:45 PM, Rich Alderson wrote: >>> Elliott Roper <nos...@yrl.co.uk> writes: >>> >>>> 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??? > > Personally I would say the Zenith Z-100 from 1982 > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_Z-100>. Because it had two CPUs > (8085 8Bit and 8088 16Bit) so the user could run either CP/M or the so > called Z-DOS. Although this was not compatible with MS-DOS there was a > nice software library available. More of a kludge than elegant. That could be done with an NEC V20 or V30, on one chip. Although a bit later on! But the DEC Rainbow did the same. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
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