18 Aug
2010
18 Aug
'10
9:48 p.m.
From: Eric Smith
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 7:43 PM
Rich Alderson wrote:
> PDP-14: build-it-yourself
[snip]
> PDP-16: build-it-yourself
[snip]
Thanks for expanding. As I noted, I was writing from memory, and I
never did more than a cursory glance at either of those products.
> The follow models of the PDP-10 were christened
DECsystem-10 and
> DECSYSTEM-20
Those were the system names; the processor was still
called a PDP-10,
and the specific processor models were known by their option names,
KA10, KI10, KL10, and KS10.
You know that, and I know that, but most people look at the external
label and go from there. Someone who never heard of a PDP-1 would be
unlikely to think "PDP-10" when confronted with a nameplate that read
"decsystem 10" or "DECSYSTEM 20".
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
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