Origin of 'Straight 8' name

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Fri Dec 21 09:10:44 CST 2018


Does anyone know where the 'Straight 8' name for the first PDP-8 model came
from? Obviously, it's probably a play on the car engine configuration name,
but how did the connection get made? Thanks - I hope!

    Noel



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