21 Oct
2011
21 Oct
'11
4:17 p.m.
On Oct 21, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
I could see the high price if embeded as controller in some lab equipment.
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.
- Dave
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?