[Info-vax] Y3K for PDP-11 Operating Systems

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

In vmsnet.pdp-11 Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:

(snip, someone wrote)
>> Other than primitive hardware and primitive software?  It was a good 
>> machine in its day but its day is LONG GONE!
 
> Now that's funny, here.  Just how is the Z80 more primitve than the PDP-11?
> And software?  At least 5 different OSes.  Wide language support.  Many
> commercial applications.
 
> And, at this point it is probably debatable which one between the TRS80
> and PDP-11 has more users on both real hardware and emulators.  I have
> quite a bit of both.

As I understand it, processors based on the Z80, though maybe not
made by Zilog, are used in many current products, such as the popular
TI graphing calculators in the TI-81 family.

I don't know that I ever heard of a PDP-11 being used in a
popular calculator.

-- glen