[TUHS] PDP-11 questions

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Mon Jan 25 21:29:55 AEST 2016


Norman Wilson <norman at oclsc.org> wrote:
>
> It worked both ways, of course.  I too suspect that a
> majority (though I'm not so sure about `vast') of PDP-11s
> never ran UNIX.

A random vaguely off-topic example: in Cambridge a PDP-11 was used as a
terminal multiplexor for the IBM mainframe.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-5.pdf

Tony.
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