21 Dec
2018
21 Dec
'18
9:23 p.m.
I worked with PDP-8's from 1970 to 1975 and worked at DEC from 1975 to
1985.
I cannot recall the term 'Straight 8' ever being used.
I think it may have been referred to as the 'Model 8'
Rod Smallwood
On 22/12/2018 03:46, John Ames via cctalk wrote:
I'd definitely be interested to hear if the
DECheads on this list know
the specifics, but I'd gathered that it came about once other models
were introduced and the need arose to differentiate between, say, a
PDP-8/e and a "straight" (i.e. vanilla) PDP-8. The car connection
probably made the particular phrasing happen (of course, they
originally photographed it in a Volkswagen, but they couldn't very
well have started calling it a "flat-4!")
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