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From: welty@steinmetz.ge.com (richard welty)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.d,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Summary: minor historical quibble, no comedy in this posting
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Date: 20 Feb 89 21:04:43 GMT
References: <744@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> <Feb.8.22.02.43.1989.5589@topaz.rutgers.edu> <524@ihf1.UUCP>
Reply-To: welty@steinmetz.GE.COM (richard welty)
Organization: New York State Institute for Sebastian Cabot Studies
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In article <524@ihf1.UUCP> bobd@ihf1.UUCP (Bob Dietrich) writes:
>In the early 70's I took care of a PDP-15 for a department at the university.
>It was an interesting machine: half a PDP-10 (18-bit words), faster than most
>early PDP-11's, but the hardware and instruction set had a strong PDP-8
>influence.

more correctly, the pdp-15 was derived from the original series
of 18 bit machines beginning with the pdp-1, and the 12 bit pdp machines
were derived from the 18 bit machines.

richard