21 Oct
2011
21 Oct
'11
4:23 p.m.
On 10/21/2011 07:17 PM, David Riley wrote:
The pricing is the only part of that that's even close to being accurate.
I laughed out loud at the "supercomputers" part. Nice machines, but
supercomputers they weren't, even when new.
Nor were they ever intended to be.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
> The
PDP-11/x was perhaps the best selling, most powerful series of
> supercomputers in the world, going through over ten major revisions in it's
> lifecycle. A PDP-11 setup would cost tens, if not hundreds of thousands of
> dollars. It often required a whole team of people dedicated to overseeing
> it's operation and managing it's moment-to-moment usage. They were used in
> everything from business, science and academic research applications to
> real-time control applications (PBX, traffic, industrial).
This is a joke, right?
I could see the high price if embeded as controller in some lab equipment.