[rescue] FA: PDP11 Qbus cards CPU and Memory

[Chad Fernandez]

Greg and Dave,

Why don't you nice boys have a bidding war instead of a flame war :-)

Chad

"Greg A. Woods" wrote:
> 
> [ On Monday, March 25, 2002 at 04:01:36 (-0500), Dave McGuire wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: [rescue] FA: PDP11 Qbus cards CPU and Memory
> >
> >   Oh, come on Greg.  I've got one sitting in storage, a first-run 11/03.
> > It doesn't say "LSI" on the front.  Indeed, I have three other
> > PDP-11/03 systems, and NONE of them say "LSI-11" on the front.
> > Neither do my PDP-11/23 systems, nor does the PDP-11/23 PLUS.
> > "LSI-11" is a processor, not a system.  Some PDP-11 systems are built
> > around LSI-11 processors.
> 
> Dave, you are not an authority on all things DEC any more than I am.
> 
> You're showing off your USA-centric pig-headed superiority complex, big
> time.
> 
> Just because you didn't have an LSI-11 "badged" SYSTEM, doesn't mean
> nobody ever did.  Certainly the one I had was no figment of my
> imagination!  Remember that we live in different countries.  DEC had
> large manufacturing facilities in Canada (and the same goes for other
> counties on the other side of the pond).  Not everything we had here was
> derived from, shipped to, or marketed in the same way, as it was down
> south of our border.
> 
> > > Ah, yes, on that point you're absolutely right --  the Professional 300
> > > series used the "CTI-bus"
> 
> (not to be confused with the modern H.100 Computer Telephony Integration
> bus, of course)
> 
> >   Ahh, finally a name for that bus!
> 
> You bought and sold and used them and never knew the name for the bus!?!?!?
> 
> something there is unbelievable.....
> 
> >   Fucking idiot.
> 
> likewise, I'm sure.
> 
> If I'm "argumentative and adversarial", what the hell do you call
> someone like you who's ever so much more of the same, but with a
> distinctly agressive and emotionally driven bent to the extent that I
> don't think I've ever observed you in an argument where you haven't
> resorted quite quickly to ad hominem attacks.  Just like this one.
> 
> --
>                                                                 Greg A. Woods
> 
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Chad Fernandez
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