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From: Alexios Chouchoulas <alexios_at_vennea.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue Apr 29 07:34:06 1997

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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