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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Top ten computers BETTER than amiga
Message-ID: <1991May9.002603.1534@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 9 May 91 00:26:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: sugar.1991May9.002603.1534
References: <8c9=MB600YU6QQ41tK@andrew.cmu.edu> <930@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
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In article <930@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor) writes:
> In <8c9=MB600YU6QQ41tK@andrew.cmu.edu> rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Russell E. Hoffman, II) writes:
> >8. PDP-11 series.
> >   Much more scientific software available. More easily portable, too. 

> We could put a J-11 in the co-processor slot ;^).  Wouldn't it be FUN to
> run RSX, or RSTS?  Hey, how 'bout Version 7?

I vote RSX-11S, with the AmigaOS as the loader and console processor. The
PDP-11 is the only CPU I would consider doing real assembly language on. Well,
that or a VAX. DEC CPUs might be hard to pipeline but boy were they fun to
program.

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-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.