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From: toby@smartgames.ca (Toby Thain)
Subject: [pups] Suitable PDP11s, in the UK
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:08:32 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D207FDFC-7D6C-4941-ACA1-E788E9B8CA1F@smartgames.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071102145947.DB047C137@kipling.tavi.co.uk>


On 2-Nov-07, at 11:59 AM, Bob Eager wrote:

> ** Reply to note from Brantley Coile <brantley at coraid.com> Fri, 2  
> Nov 2007 09:42:47 -0400
>
>> Wes,
>> Is this the book you are thinking of?
>>
>> http://research.microsoft.com/users/gbell/Computer_Engineering/ 
>> index.html
>
> Probably was!
>
> I just bought a copy on eBay a couple of weeks ago, and have just  
> read it
> cover to cover.

There's more than one edition. I bought both but I don't have them  
with me here to provide details. It's worth also finding the other  
one, as it has a different cross-section of designs.

Should be easily found on abebooks.com, bibliofind etc.

--Toby

> A bit dry at the start, but fascinating...I starting using
> PDP11s back in 1972. (an 11/20)
>
> And used what I think was the first v6 UNIX system in England...
>
>
>
> Bob
>
> cc: pups at minnie.tuhs.org
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-17 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-02 14:59 Bob Eager
2007-11-17 13:08 ` Toby Thain [this message]
     [not found] <20071117182041.77324C13F@kipling.tavi.co.uk>
2007-11-17 18:53 ` Toby Thain
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-11-01 17:31 Tim Bradshaw
2007-11-02 10:34 ` Wesley Parish
2007-11-02 11:35   ` Robert Tillyard
2007-11-02 12:03   ` Robert Tillyard
2007-11-02 13:38   ` Tim Bradshaw
2007-11-02 14:15     ` Gregg Levine
2007-11-02 16:28       ` Carl Lowenstein
2007-11-02 23:52         ` Gregg Levine
2007-11-02 13:42   ` Brantley Coile
2007-11-03  7:58     ` Wesley Parish

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