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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: pdp-11/55
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Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 19:20:44 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 10 19:20:44 1987
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> The 11/45 was the only other 11 to have [split space].

No, later large 11s (44, 73, 8x) have it.  It took them a while to learn
that it was important, but they eventually did.  Having Bell Labs / AT&T
refuse to buy the 11/60 for this reason (I was told) made quite an impression
on DEC.

> DEC never produced an operating system that took advantage of it...

I think this changed as the DEC operating systems grew.  I'm not sure of
that; I lost interest in DEC operating systems in early 1975 when Fifth
Edition Unix came out.
-- 
"Mir" means "peace", as in           |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"the war is over; we've won".        | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry