Re: PDP 11/40 system manual

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From: Peter Flass
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 21:36

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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???
> 

System/360.

-- 
Pete

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