Re: PDP 11/40 system manual

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From: Questor
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 07:54

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On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 15:31:31 -0500, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com>
wrote:
>On 8/9/2018 1:45 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
>> Elliott Roper <nos...@yrl.co.uk> writes:
>> 
>>> On 8 Aug 2018, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote
>>> (in article<21aaeee8-c41a-4442...@googlegroups.com>):
>> 
>>>> Bitsavers uploaded the system manual for the PDP 11/40.
>> 
>>>> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/1140/DEC-11-H40SA-A-D_PDP-11_40_System_
>>>> manual.pdf
>> 
>>>> 358 pages, undated.
>> 
>>> 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???

The PDP-10, of course.

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