6 Jan
2019
6 Jan
'19
2:56 p.m.
From: William Donzelli
> in 1980, there were more PDP-11's, world-wide,
than any other kind of
> computer.
I bet the guys at Zilog might have something to talk
to you about.
I was quoting my memory of a DEC ad in the WSJ, which now that I go check,
says the -11 was "the best-selling computer in the world" (the ad was in
1980). There are a number of possible explanations as to why it makes this
claim:
- some marketing person made it up
- they were only counting things that were general-purpose (i.e. came with
mass storage and compilers)
- they didn't consider micros as "computers" (many were used in things like
printers, etc, and were not usable as general-purpose computers)
Etc, etc.
Noel