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DEC thought the same thing; so they added peripherals like Boot ROM cards. It's interesting to see how the PDP-11 series evolved from the beginning with teletyp
by cbm-vic-20 4y ago
DEC thought the same thing; so they added peripherals like Boot ROM cards. It's interesting to see how the PDP-11 series evolved from the beginning with teletypes and punch tapes, requiring the operator to toggle in programs on the switches into ferrite core memory, and ended up with multi-user UNIX systems with multiprocessing, Winchester drives, and networking.