[rescue] Rescued VAX 4500 question

[dave at cca.org]

mcguire at neurotica.com writes:

>> You know, I could probably score enough LSI-11 bits & pieces to build up a
>> working system...but what would you use such a thing for?

>  Pretty much anything you'd use any other computer for, except for
>perhaps web browsing or playing mp3s.

Processing symbolic data!

>  Of course.  It's an architecture that's still in volume production
>and sold commercially.

>  I find it interesting that the pdp11, as a commercial product, has
>outlived its first successor, the VAX, and will likely outlive its
>second...the Alpha.

*Very* interesting.

Introduced in 1970, and still going strong. Wow.

So when's NetBSD going to support them!?!?

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