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[ih] bytes [Re: "network unix"]
- Subject: [ih] bytes [Re: "network unix"]
- From: jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 15:32:14 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "John Levine" <johnl at iecc.com>
> There was a competing 16 bit word addressed design by the designer of
> the PDP-8, which after DEC rejected it became the DG Nova.
I hear this repeated a lot, but I'm not sure it's accurate. That competing
design has surfaced (Google "PDP-X"), and it's not very much like the Nova.
Noel