21 Oct
2011
21 Oct
'11
3:44 p.m.
On Oct 21, 2011, at 6:14 PM, ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
On 10/21/2011 3:35 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
The pricing is the only part of that that's even close to being accurate.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
From: Brian Robinson
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 3:32 PM
I could see the high price if embeded as controller in some lab equipment. 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?