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From: mcculley@alien.enet.dec.com
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Subject: Re: Speed costs
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Date: 30 May 90 21:40:24 GMT
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In article <854@sce.carleton.ca>, greg@sce.carleton.ca (Greg Franks) writes...
>In article <2832@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
>>Which brings forth the argument in favor of progress.  How many people
>>actually use PDP-11's anymore?  I've seen a few go in and out at garage sales.
> 
>[...]I wonder what's running the
>Hubble Space telescope.  I'll bet it isn't an 88000, SPARC, 29K or
>R3000.
> 
That reminds me, when I first joined Digital (about 10 years ago) teaching 
RSX customer training courses, my first onsite course was taught in an IBM (!)
facility where they were working on a contract to do a ground support system
for the space telescope using an 11/70 running RSX-11M.  Seems IBM was (is?) a
DEC OEM...	:-)	:-)
(I think they produced some Unibus hardware options for interprocessor comms.)

Bruce McCulley
RSX Software Development
Digital Equipment Corp.