From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] Why did PDPs become so popular?
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 13:14:04 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171228021404.GM70143@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2P_N20Z7HZd8j9ffjnvenptqpromDgzJBLi9N13AsBfkQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 16:51:54 -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
>
> The concept of purchasing smaller system, was indeed true. This was the
> idea behind the >>mini-computer<< or *minimal computer* that Gordon Bell
> who lad left DEC temporarily to be a CMU Prof for a time began to explore.
This ties in very much with what I recall from the late 1960s. My
very first computer was a PDP-8/I, and we certainly called it a
computer, not a data processor.
> He took the idea and commercialized and the PDP-8 line was the first
> in that line.
Not the PDP-5? I thought there was little difference. If there was,
it would be interesting to know.
Greg
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-27 21:02 Alec Muffett
2017-12-27 21:50 ` Grant Taylor
2017-12-28 1:23 ` Alec Muffett
2017-12-27 21:51 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-27 21:52 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-28 2:14 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
[not found] <109152082.5216233.1514413535270.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2017-12-27 22:25 ` Dave Ritchie
2017-12-27 22:32 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-27 23:44 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-27 23:38 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-12-28 0:07 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-28 0:45 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-12-28 1:39 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-28 14:05 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-28 15:59 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-28 16:08 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-28 23:28 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-12-29 11:04 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-12-29 23:35 ` Jon Forrest
2017-12-29 23:58 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-29 16:38 Larry McVoy
2017-12-29 23:54 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-12-30 0:04 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-30 0:54 ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-12-30 1:47 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-12-30 2:19 ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-12-30 2:35 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-30 2:20 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-31 2:47 ` Henry Bent
2017-12-30 1:07 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-30 2:30 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-31 3:00 ` Henry Bent
2017-12-31 9:59 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2017-12-31 15:55 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-31 5:20 Rudi Blom
2017-12-31 12:56 ` Clement T. Cole
2017-12-31 15:03 ` Steve Simon
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