[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Rich Alderson]

JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:

> RE: new PDP11s post Digital going to VAX.

> Didn't Compuserve use customer PDP11 based machines as "nodes" in
> different cities where they offered service ?

No, they used PDP-10 systems, eventually making a deal with Systems Concepts to
manufacture their own SC-40 CPUs at a license fee per box of 40% of list.

And yes, the SC boxes do count as PDP-10 systems.  Bug-compatible with the
KL-10 processor.

> And after Mentec inherited the PDP, did it have any PDP CPUs fabbed ? Or
> did it use stockopiled CPUs made by DEC when it made the last big batch
> of them ?

There's no such thing as "the PDP"!  DEC built 4.5 different architectures
which it labeled PDP-<number>, you know.

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