Bet you didn't know...(PDP-11)
Allison
ajp166 at bellatlantic.net
Tue Sep 19 11:39:09 CDT 2006
>
>Subject: Re: Bet you didn't know...(PDP-11)
> From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:30:40 -0700
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>,
> cctech at classiccmp.org
>
>At 7:09 AM -0400 9/19/06, Allison wrote:
>> >
>>>Subject: Bet you didn't know...(PDP-11)
>>> From: Julian Wolfe <fireflyst at earthlink.net>
>>> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:07:49 -0500
>>> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
>>><cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>>>
>>>As of September 30, 2006, the last PDP-11 that rolled off the line
>>>will finally be 10 years old.
>>>
>>>The PDP-11 EOL was actually September 30,1996.
>>
>>Mentec continued it and you can still buy new 11 based boards.
>>
>>Allison
>
>Is Mentec still selling them? From the last time I looked at the
>website, it looked like they were only reselling emulators instead of
>real hardware now.
>
>Still up until recently they were selling new boards.
>
> Zane
They may well have stopped cpu production but only recently.The only CPUs
that have been around near as long in production are:
PDP-8 (cmos 6100 and 6120)
1802
Z80
Allison
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