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From: gsteckel@vergil.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Steckel - Sun BOS Hardware CONTRACTOR)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.arch
Subject: anybody *need* a Dec-10/20?
Keywords: PDP10 TOPS-20
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Date: 26 Apr 91 22:00:47 GMT
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It looks like a lot of people have a warm spot for the old DEC 36-bit
machines (PDP-10, Decsystem 20).  But does anybody have any code that
really needs to run on them?  Running ITS counts as alt.religion.computers...

examples of reasons:
    1) it's all assembler, and lots of it.
    2) it's all BLISS-10 (argh!)
    3) it needs 72 bits for floating point
    4) ???? other reasons

Don't get me wrong - I hacked assembler on those machines for decades(!?!?!)
(well, 1 1/2+ decades), and had lots of fun.  The question is, is this
architecture really dead?
	geoff steckel (gwes@wjh12.harvard.EDU)
			(...!husc6!wjh12!omnivore!gws)
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