From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,29f36805b9a20fe8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-03 11:32:03 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!freenix!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 6-bit characters (was: Re: Streams in Ada) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:04:59 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9ad3cd$hpo$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <9aa3dd$efb$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9aab1e$hhm$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3AC8F892.87B56B74@boeing.com> <3AC9FD54.47CF0136@boeing.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 986321101 18232 136.170.200.133 (3 Apr 2001 18:05:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Apr 2001 18:05:01 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6406 Date: 2001-04-03T18:05:01+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Jeffrey Carter" 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. >