Building a PDP-11 for the first time

From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla_at_jarai.org>
Date: Sun Dec 14 21:07:44 2003

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Eric Smith wrote:
> Antonio wrote:

> > I don't know what the performance figures were for the
> > 11/74 either. However, the beast was deemed to be too
> > hard to maintain. Too many cables, too much downtime.
>
> That was one of the rumors, but I've never believed it. There's no
> fundamental reason why it should have been any harder to maintain than
> any other large computer. I think this was just a feeble attempt by
> DEC management to come up with an excuse to give customers, when they
> didn't want to admit the real reason the product was cancelled.

That wouldn't have anything to do with it performing /too/ well,
would it?

-brian.
Received on Sun Dec 14 2003 - 21:07:44 GMT

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