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Article #2137Info wanted: DEC history
From: Magnus Olsson
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 15:11
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 15:11
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I've been using DEC products quite a lot - all my programming courses were on VAXen under VMS, and I'm writing this on a DECstation under Ultrix, but I know almost nothing about their older machines - the various PDP's, DECsystems etc. Also, there seems to have been quite a lot of different operating systems used on these boxes. Could someone please give me some information about the older systems, both hard- and software - in what order were they developed, in which way are they related or different and so on (for example, I've seen very little of TOPS-20 but it seems to have some similarities with VMS. Are they just superficial?) And how many of these old systems are still in use? Magnus Olsson | \e+ /_ Dept. of Theoretical Physics | \ Z / q University of Lund, Sweden | >----< Internet: magnus@thep.lu.se | / \===== g Bitnet: THEPMO@SELDC52 | /e- \q
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!THEP.LU.SE!magnus From: magnus@THEP.LU.SE (Magnus Olsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Info wanted: DEC history Message-ID: <9009271509.AA19706@thep.lu.se> Date: 27 Sep 90 15:11:20 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 18