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[ih] bytes [Re: "network unix"]



this is the story I remember at the time -almost all of  the DG founders were all ex-DEC people
particularly Ed de Castro who ran the PDP-8 stuff for DEC - the Nova was basically a glorified PDP-8

Scott

> On Oct 10, 2016, at 3:32 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>