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- From: sarr@sinshan.citi.umich.edu (Sarr J. Blumson)
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- Subject: Re: PDP ftp archive
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 14:30:52 GMT
- Organization: University of Michigan, CITI
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- References: <1992Nov20.142937.9123@news.uiowa.edu> <1992Nov21.003656.17491@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov22.114337.15485@news.columbia.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov22.114337.15485@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
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- >But the -20 *is* a -10. What's the difference between a KL-10 and the
- >high-end -20, the color of the cabinet? Yes, you don't run TOPS-20 on
- >a KA-10, but a KL can be called anything you want. The point is that model
- >numbers can be muddled, and clearly marketroids are the source of the
- >muddling. Calling them all -10's would've been fine, but...
- >
- Not quite; there were microcode differences as well. While you could
- buy a KL-10 either way, the smaller KS-10 was on;y sold as a 20
- (marketing and engineering didn't talk to each other then either, I
- guess) although some customers built 10 microcode for the KS as well.
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