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From: us048503@mmm.serc.3m.com (Art H. Hurst)
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Subject: Re: Any PDP/11 experts out there? (heh heh...)
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.034049.1256@mmm.serc.3m.com>
Date: 15 Jun 91 03:40:49 GMT
References: <15166@ucrmath.ucr.edu> <1991Jun12.010416.1464@spcvxb.spc.edu> <1991Jun13.222910.3069@sj.ate.slb.com> <1991Jun14.053912.1473@spcvxb.spc.edu>
Reply-To: ahhurst@3m.com (Art H. Hurst)
Organization: 3M - St. Paul, MN  55144-1000 US
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You are all making fun of the venerable PDP-11 series. We here at 3M
Camarillo California are running many PDP-11 series (44,70,23,73) and
getting the job done as always. Even our 3M comrades say "PDP what???".
A DC3 may look ugly but it still flies and gets people from here to
there. Besides RSX11M+ has withstood the test of time superbly. The
hardware and software are sturdy, simple, and reliable. What more can
you ask?? Look also at OS/2. Who did Microsoft pick to finish the job
but Dave Cutler the father of RSX11M+. Also, RSX11M+ has multi-processor
commands in its reportoire! There have been at least two multi-processor
PDP-11's and if it weren't for the necessity of selling VMS I'll bet you
would have seen a proliferation of multi-processor PDP-11's. The PDP-8
and the PDP-11 will go down in history as two milestones in computer
progress. Already the PDP-8 is one of the historic turning points in
the IEEE 25 year edition of major milestones in progress!