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Article #625080Re: DEC introduces PDP-6 [was Re: IBM introduces System/360]
From: Quadibloc
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 06:14
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 06:14
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On Friday, July 20, 2018 at 2:47:17 PM UTC-6, Rich Alderson wrote: > Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> writes: > > On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 3:50:28 PM UTC-6, John Levine wrote: > >> Good point. Too bad that DEC sold 20 PDP-6's while IBM sold thousands of 360s. > > But look at all the PDP-8s that DEC shipped! > PDP-8 systems, of any stripe, are irrelevant to a discussion of mainframes! :-) I wonder. I mean, a PDP-8/I, suitably configured, could support eight time- sharing users, and you could add hardware floating-point to it. And a System/360 Model 30 had an 8-bit ALU... which would have given more performance? John Savard
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