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From: ror@grassys.bc.ca (Richard O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: PDP-11s (was: Re: Speed costs (Re: MWC's Coherent - A Lemon...))
Summary: We use PDP-11's
Message-ID: <160@grassys.bc.ca>
Date: 30 May 90 02:47:42 GMT
References: <12018@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Organization: Grass Root Systems, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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In article <12018@shlump.nac.dec.com>, mcculley@alien.enet.dec.com writes:
= 
=>>[[ Followups to comp.arch ]]
=> 
=>Which brings forth the argument in favor of progress.  How many people
=>actually use PDP-11's anymore?  
= 
= IMHO not as many as should be.  :-(  
= But still enough to be funding my salary.  :-)
= 

PDP-11's are used in a chunk of telephone switching equipment that the
company I work for is putting into service.  Yes, it is old stuff,
but it is a truely digital (not the company, the mode of operation)
switch.  I know of an 'automated' air traffic control system based on
PDP-11's that is still in use too (not for long though).  Come to think
of it, I also know of a fish sorting getup (yes, fish sorting) that I
*think* uses PDP's too.

= Digital is still shipping enough PDP-11s to justify introducing the new
= PDP-11/94 (Unibus) and MicroPDP-11/93 (Q-bus) systems.
= 

= somebody has already been there with a PDP!
= 
= Bruce McCulley
= RSX-11 Software Development
= Digital Equipment Corp.

I wonder if any of the above mentioned systems run RSX-11?  I don't know
(as yet).