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Christ, why would you go from (relatively) commodity PDP-11 hardware to a more restrictive IBM platform? If you want reliability, any industrial/rugged x86 at t
by nxobject 2y ago
Christ, why would you go from (relatively) commodity PDP-11 hardware to a more restrictive IBM platform? If you want reliability, any industrial/rugged x86 at that time would have been cheaper and easier to maintain in-house.
- madaxe_again 2y agoCouldn’t tell you, but probably some variant of “that’s what the CTO’s last gig used”