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PDP11/34 ain’t big iron. An IBM 360-67, or a CDC6600 is big iron.
by aj7 6y ago
PDP11/34 ain’t big iron. An IBM 360-67, or a CDC6600 is big iron.
- romwell 6y agoIf I can't lift it, it's big. On a serious note, PDP systems were "minicomputers" back in the day. Look up what comes up when you put "mini computer" in a web search, especially image search. If you guessed a... small computer, you're right. Words change meanings over time; and what PDP-11 was called when it was made is now used for other systems. I am not at all surprised to see PDP-11 being now described with the word used for the grander IBM/360.
- aj7 6y agoThis fails. You can lift the pieces. Try that with a single module from real “big iron.” The disk drives of the CDC6600 at the Courant Institute shook the floor when operating. The punch card readers in the MIT computer center in 1970 could read a foot high tray of cards in half a second, and the chain printer could print about four 11x17 pages in a second. Also, I think you may be referring to VAX-11.