[ih] "network unix"

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Sun Oct 9 13:51:23 PDT 2016


> Wow, people are actually reading this stuff...  Thanks to everyone who
> pointed out that PDP-8s didn't have 8-bit byte.  Tough audience...

no.  it's just that the digital series is well under the altzheimer's
threshold of most of us.  i did not come into the dec world until the
pdp-8 and -11 and. much later, the sail-10.

i was trapped in the ibm lameframe (704/40/94) world, and later the
360s, which had its own rather large minis.  the architectures of the
1620 (6-bit bcd word) and 1401 (8-bit bcd with zone punches and a word
mark) were much more fun.  the 1130 was 16-bit, boring, and short-lived.

alas, poor yorick. i knew him, horatio.

randy



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