[ih] bytes [Re: "network unix"]

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Mon Oct 10 12:32:14 PDT 2016


    > From: "John Levine" <johnl at iecc.com>

    > There was a competing 16 bit word addressed design by the designer of
    > the PDP-8, which after DEC rejected it became the DG Nova.

I hear this repeated a lot, but I'm not sure it's accurate. That competing
design has surfaced (Google "PDP-X"), and it's not very much like the Nova.

       Noel



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