I worked with some PDP11's and also did minor work on a VAX. This was in the 1978 - 1990 time frame.
I have always wondered how a modern PC stacks up against those antiques, power-wise. I assume a 3 gHz PC kicks their butt, but don't know. Jerry W4UK At 16:06 11/2/2006, you wrote: >Tim Ellison wrote: > > And for all of you too young to know or too old to forget what a VAX 11 > > was (is) and it's predecessor the PDP-11, here is a little history > > > > http://www.webmythology.com/VAXhistory.htm > > > > http://research.microsoft.com/~gbell/Digital/Bell_Retrospective_PDP11_pa > > per_c1998.htm > > > > > > -Tim > > ---- > > Integrated Technical Services > > www.itsco.com > > > >The PDP-11 rocks, for a while I worked for a Medical company and we >switched from PDP-8's to PDP-11's, we were in heaven, what a beautiful >machine to write assembler code for. And it was easy to create a good >compiler for it also. > >For dinky home projects I like to use the MSP430 family it's very >reminiscent of the PDP-11 like instruction set. > > >KD5NWA >www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
