Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notes version 1.1usg 6/21/82; site ihlpf.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!ihlpf!dan From: dan@ihlpf.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: "Re: RE: PDT-11's - (nf)" Message-ID: <133@ihlpf.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 10:01:59 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpf.133 Posted: Wed Jun 15 10:01:59 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jun-83 21:00:54 EDT Organization: BTL Naperville, IL Lines: 14 #R:n44a:-16500:ihlpf:23200005: 0:603 ihlpf!jdu Jun 15 8: 6:00 1983 If you buy a PDT-11 BEWARE of the magical curly brace. Some people here had one, (no tape drive, no floppy version) and it had the annoying characteristic of going into a download mode when it saw a { or a } (I don't remember which) typed at the keyboard on a full duplex line. The symptom the user sees is that the terminal stops working. It is waiting for the end of the downloaded program which never comes. This made it VERY DIFFICULT to use it to write C programs. Other than that, it was OK. Nobody tried to use it as a processor after I got here, so I can't comment on how well that would work.