Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!Smith@cmu-cs-c From: Smith%cmu-cs-c@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Ah, yes, the Pdp-7. Message-ID: <2140@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Jun-83 11:53:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2140 Posted: Tue Jun 14 11:53:00 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jun-83 19:17:14 EDT Lines: 24 From: David SmithI think you have a warped sense of what constitutes slander. The PDP-5 was a downsized 4, sort of (12 bits instead of 18) and the 8 was a reimplementation of the 5, fixing some of the more peculiar warts. So the 8 looked like the 7, not the other away around. If you agree that the 8 looked like the 7, I feel vindicated. Since the Pdp-8 series was much more widely sold than the 4/7/9/15, and more people were acquainted with it, I felt it made sense to describe the 7 in terms of its similarities to the 8. "What does your father look like?" "He looks like me." Does that imply I preceded my father? But actually, we mean "acted" rather than "looked." Nah. I meant "looked." The appearance of the instruction formats. We had our PDP-8 mounted on a pallet with handles so we could carry it around like a sedan chair. There were giants then. John Levine, decvax!yale-co!jrl, ucbvax!cbosgd!ima!johnl, {research|alice|allegra|floyd|amd70}!ima!johnl