18 May
2017
18 May
'17
12:50 p.m.
Do you have any idea how many PDP-11's were used by NASA for things
like controlling deep space probes and putting men on the moon? A BBS
is a vewry low demand task and could easily be handled by the smallest
of the LSI-11 family.
bill
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From: cctalk [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] on behalf of Adrian Stoness via cctalk
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Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 12:51 PM
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Subject: Re: BBS software for the PDP 11
So a 11/03 aka a lsi11 would be to slow for such things? Such as those
Heathkit h11 lsi11 macheans? Witch was a hobyist pdp11 for those that are
unfamiliar with the hearhkits
On May 18, 2017 11:45 AM, "Chuck Guzis via cctalk" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 05/18/2017 08:16 AM, allison via cctalk wrote:
The real question is why BBS? What is it trying
to fix or enable?
You put the words into my mouth. Thank you.
--Chuck