[geeks] Re: WOOHOO!!

[Dave McGuire]

On Sunday, October 27, 2002, at 07:46 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>> PDP-11 ever built...the granddaddy of 'em all, circa 1974.
>
> IIRC wasn't there a bigger machine (TOPS-10 or TOPS-20)?
>
> Was that an O/S?

   TOPS-10 and -20 are operating systems.

> Oh, never mind - that was a PDP-10, not PDP-11...
>
> http://www.linique.com/dlm/tenex/hbook.html

   Yup.  The PDP-10 (DECsystem-10, DECsystem-20) are considered 
mainframes, and are typically much larger by nearly all measures.  They 
are *not* (as the model numbers might suggest) the predecessor of the 
PDP-11.

         -Dave

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