Kurt Talman wrote

| 1 - PDP stood for personal data processor.

John McCarthy insisted that it was an acronym for Programmed Data
Processor and objected to it as all but vacuous, too generic because
it described any computer.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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