[rescue] Mac Appliance

[Ken Hansen]

Did you ever hear about the IBM 360 family of computers? They were the first
computers designed to be upwards-compatible - previously, you had rewrite
your applications when you upgraded your machine.

The IBM System 360 was introduced in 1964, the same year as yours truely...
;^)

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Mac Appliance


> On August 3, joshua d boyd wrote:
> > Or, it could be the related question, is a PDP-11 a PDP-11, or is each
> > model incompatible with the next PDP-11 model (in which case the Mentec
> > models might be similar in name only).
>
>   They are software compatible.  Nearly 100% compatible over thirty
> years of machines, I might eadd.



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