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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] B Source Code
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:20:25 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1709191118010.89458@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fbf3c0c5-e24a-46d0-a245-56559532c963.maildroid@localhost>

On Fri, 15 Sep 2017, William Pechter wrote:

[ WCS on the 11/60 ]

> I thought Reuters re-microcoded them to be the fastest PDP8 around...

I'd heard that some newspaper house in Australia ordered a bunch, and when 
the contract fell through DEC were stuck with them, so they practically 
gave them away to Universities.

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-19  1:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-14 13:39 Noel Chiappa
2017-09-14 14:24 ` Dan Cross
2017-09-14 19:46   ` Derek Fawcus
2017-09-15  3:59 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-15 11:43   ` William Pechter
2017-09-19  1:20     ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2017-09-15 12:44   ` Clem Cole
2017-09-15 13:03     ` Clem Cole
2017-09-15 14:16       ` [TUHS] Rich's B compiler, was " Tony Finch
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-09-15 15:21 [TUHS] " Noel Chiappa
2017-09-14  3:48 Doug McIlroy
2017-09-14  4:49 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-14  5:06   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-09-14 12:53     ` Ronald Natalie
2017-09-14  5:33   ` Alec Muffett
2017-09-14  5:44     ` Warner Losh
2017-09-12 18:03 Robert Swierczek
2017-09-12 18:14 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-12 19:24   ` Clem Cole
2017-09-12 19:43     ` Steve Johnson
2017-09-18 21:45     ` Angelo Papenhoff
2017-09-19 17:01       ` Thorsten Sideboard
2017-09-12 19:36   ` Charles Anthony
2017-09-12 20:39   ` Robert Swierczek

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