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[Bill Bradford]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:31:38PM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> Well, not exactly.  I mean, on the one hand, it sounds like, why get an
> antique box when a new one is available (since this is a business that is
> reasonable).  On the other hand, it sounds stupid the other way if we are
> talking about a box for running SunOS 4 apps.  Then, you couldn't even
> consider anything newer, but the question still could be put, why buy a
> Sparc 2 when you can get a Sparc 20 clone?

Uh, *price*?  I'd say you could get a "real" 11/70 for less than half
the price of one of Mentec's "new" machines.

> 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).

No, they're all backwards compatible.

> As you might guess, this is coming from someone who barely knowns a single
> thing about PDP-11s other than they preceded the Vaxes (and that actually
> is all I can think of that I know about PDP-11s.)

See www.pdp11.org.  

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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