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Nothing about the PDP-11 (direct ancestor of the VAX, which the article starts with). No details of how one ISA influenced another. I guess we can forgive the r
by kabdib 8y ago
Nothing about the PDP-11 (direct ancestor of the VAX, which the article starts with). No details of how one ISA influenced another. I guess we can forgive the relative dead-end of the PDP-8 and PDP-10 architectures.
Good picture of Ken Olsen, though :-)
(I'd forgotten about PRISM, which was canceled through some nasty politics and caused Dave Cutler to move to Microsoft -- and Cutler's Windows NT was a heavy contributor to DEC's failure).