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From: keith@imagen.UUCP (Keith Rich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.arch
Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 info. (LSB standard)
Message-ID: <2932@imagen.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 89 21:55:19 GMT
Reply-To: keith@imagen.COM (Keith Rich)
Organization: Imagen Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
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In article <12989@steinmetz.ge.com> you write:
:In article <85330@sun.uucp> khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering) writes:
:
:| If you decide to buy a MIPS based processor, stick with one that is
:| STANDARD comforming. Why make your life difficult. If you don't like
:| the ISI, after a bit, you can go with someone else (MIPS, Ardent,
:| etc.). If you don't like the 3100 upgrade choices, you're stuck with
:| an OS AND processor change.
:
:  Those of us who work with a number of vendors would be delighted to
:have an LSB standard. Those damn PC won't go away, so machines like the
:VAX give fewer "learning opportunities" than any other byte order
:machines.
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:	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
:  {uunet | philabs}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
:"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me

I get a kick out of the above logic.  I suppose that this means that the PC
which was released in 1981 was the reason for the LSB standard being adopted
for the Vax which was released in 1977.  What does this mean in terms of the
PDP-11 which was released in 1970?  And why didn't the PDP-10 follow this
LSB standard?

Actually, the PC followed the 8080 which was released circa 1974.  In any
case, you can thank (or blame) DEC for the LSB "standard".  All machines
used the MSB standard until DEC "improved" the situation in 1970.