Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Survey of architectures was (Re: Proposed architecture characterization)
Message-ID: <1988Apr26.024011.6516@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2048@gumby.mips.COM> <10504@steinmetz.ge.com> <7657@ames.arpa>, <29220@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 88 02:40:11 GMT

While considering the contributions of the PDP-8 and PDP-11, don't forget
something that was a prominent feature of the 11 but really started on the
late-model 8s:  a standard I/O bus running across the whole family, so that
new models could use the same peripherals as old ones.
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