Re: 6-bit characters (was: Re: Streams in Ada)

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

Well, I don't know that I can speak for (ex)Digital Equipment Corp as to how
they went about naming things, but IIRC, the "DECSystem-10" referred to the
whole ball of wax, (processors, disks, etc.) whereas the PDP-10 designated
the processor. (PDP = Programmable Data Processor?) They had at one time a
tripple-processor configuration (Western Michigan University was the first
to get one!) so the distinction between DEC-10 and PDP-10 had some reality.
Still, it was essentially talking about the same thing.

As for SOS - I used that one too - much moreso than TECO. But the one thing
you couldn't do with SOS was edit a file on a magnetic tape drive. :-)

MDC
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"Jeffrey Carter" <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote in message
news:3AC9FD54.47CF0136@boeing.com...
> How interesting. Since you and MDC both say this, I only need one more
> person to tell me this for it to be a fact ("What I tell you 3 times is
> true."). I was aware of the PDP-11, but no one ever mentioned that the
> DEC 10 was the PDP-10.
>
> The DEC 10 was supposed to be able to handle 100 users simultaneously.
> Boy, was it slow.
>
> BTW, I didn't use TECO on the DEC 10; I used SOS.
>