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From: Alexios Chouchoulas <alexios_at_vennea.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue Apr 29 20:12:52 1997

On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, William Donzelli wrote:

> > Ok, so the PDPs didn't influence hardware that much and they weren't home
> > computers.
>
> The 68000 series was based on the PDP-11 design. Not much influence?

  I learn something new every day. :-) I don't know much about the
internals of the 68k and I know even less about the PDP-11, so I'll take
your word for it!

  No matter what, of course, the PDPs and the rest of the pre-microprocessor
computers DID of course influence computing and they deserve to be at least
as famous as their more recent counterparts like the Altair and company. Of
course the press and mainstream folk (oops, there we go again) seem
blissfully unaware of computing as it was before the invention of the
microchip, but we can still remember.

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