Re: Professional 350 System...

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From: CP/M lives!
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 16:15

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In article <1992Aug7.123534.27726@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, ecldco@ultb.isc.rit.edu (E.C. Loyd) writes:
> Ha!  The DEC Professional 350 is basically a Rainbow.  It's also basically
> a VAX 8000 series console device.  In other words, it has an 8088 processor
> in it with some DEC-y things attached to it, and makes nothing better than
> a space heater.  I wouldn't even try to find useful software for it.  Spend
> your time finding a real PC and save some money.

Try again. The Pro 350 is an LSI-11/23 based machine that runs PDP-11
software. It has absolutely nothing to do with the 8088.

My only complaint about the Pro is that they did the silly bit-mapped video
stuff instead of putting the console on a terminal port. Sigh.

DEC came out with a number of PCs in that timeframe that all used very
similar boxes, but the insides were different. DECmate II was a PDP-8,
Pro 350 was a PDP-11, and Rainbow was an MS-DOS box.

Roger Ivie
ivie@cc.usu.edu

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