29 Apr
1997
29 Apr
'97
9:34 a.m.
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Sam Ismail wrote:
Yes, I realized that. The PDP-8 and PDP-11 are
definitely worthy of
mention, but did they really make the impact and have significance equal
to the Altair and the others? I'm sure you could argue to that effect.
Care to?
How about the advent of Unix and C? Both made for the PDP-11. And the
PDP-8 was considered the first potentially personal computer (it could fit
in your house, albeit it cost in the vicinity of $10k when it first came
out).
Ok, so the PDPs didn't influence hardware that much and they weren't home
computers. But software is equally important, and I don't even care to
estimate the percentage of running systems written in C.
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