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- From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
- Subject: Workstations; was: Re: Value of a PDP-11,VAX-11/750?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.051643.5902@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- Organization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens
- References: <3598318@zl2tnm.gen.nz> <1992Nov16.181644.3861@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:16:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.181644.3861@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson) writes:
- >In 1970 a basic PDP-11 went for US$10800.
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- Same as a generously configured Sparcstation today.
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- A workstation or lab computer = whatever 10 kilodollars will buy at time T.
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