From: nw@retrocomputingtasmania.com (Nigel Williams)
Subject: [TUHS] PDP-10 in the news today
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 08:07:05 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACCFpdz7G808rODwcTuRY-26HpO4U=HWg3S4uu3oOMY=FPjUoA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170131193303.GA30737@minnie.tuhs.org>
In the wikipedia entry on the DEC PDP-10, it has this comment:
"The PDP-10 is the machine that made time-sharing common, and this and
other features made it a common fixture in many university computing
facilities and research labs during the 1970s..."
Is it a reasonable claim that the PDP-10 made time-sharing "common"
(note it says "the machine")? I'm presuming that "common" should be
read as ubiquitous and accessible (as in lower-cost than
competing/alternative options from other manufacturers or even DEC).
I'm wondering if it was really the combination of the PDP-11
(lower-cost more models) and Unix ("free" license to universities)
that propelled time-sharing, at least at universities.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-31 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-31 0:56 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2017-01-31 7:41 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-01-31 8:12 ` Peter Jeremy
2017-01-31 14:19 ` Clem Cole
2017-01-31 19:33 ` Warren Toomey
2017-01-31 21:07 ` Nigel Williams [this message]
2017-01-31 2:39 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-31 13:26 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-31 21:17 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2017-01-31 21:33 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-31 23:23 ` Clem Cole
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