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- From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
- Subject: Re: PDP ftp archive
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.112250.14995@news.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University
- References: <13632@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <1992Nov20.142937.9123@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 11:22:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.142937.9123@news.uiowa.edu> jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
-
- >
- >Although DEC documentation occasionally used the term PDP generically,
- >without a qualifying number, this was generally used as a synonym for
- >"DEC computer" and not as a reference to a specific machine.
- >
- >Nowdays, when I hear someone refer to a PDP, or to PDP collectors, I
- >assume they're a fairly ignorant newbie unaware of the incredible
- >variation between the different DEC PDP architectures.
-
- Amen!
-
- A lot of used-computer and other vendors suffer from the same disease:
-
- ("we will buy all of your PDP hardware")
-
- A related issue:
-
- Some of these same iron-moving types claim to be a vendor "for all of your
- DEC VT's" as if VT-100 and up is all that DEC ever made. Someone should
- tell them about VT05, 50, 50H, 52, as well as some more obscure stuff like
- VT-20, 06, and VT8E.
-
- cjl
-