4 Mar
2020
4 Mar
'20
8:25 a.m.
On Mar 4, 2020, at 10:46 AM, Bob Smith via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
LEC16 was a copy of the PDP11. Lockheed sold it to BBN. BBN relabeled
it Pluribus.
I was part of the DEC engineering team looking at purchasing the LEC,
as one of the features was the ability to be an Arpanet IMP.
I was quite familiar with t the Unibus, and noticed the print set was
very similar to a negative copy of an 11/20 print set.
I raised this with the boss and legal. The machine was then referred
to as the Lockheed SUE.
//bob
That's interesting. I remember seeing a SUE at the university, but that was not a
PDP-11 clone at all. For one thing, its claim to fame was that it had user-programmable
microcode.
paul