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Subject: Ah, yes, the Pdp-7.
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Date: Tue, 14-Jun-83 11:53:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 14 11:53:00 1983
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From:  David Smith 

I 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