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From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Retro-Computing!
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 13:38:37 GMT
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In article <aldersonD6uE52.I9G@netcom.com>,
Richard M. Alderson III <alderson@netcom.com> wrote:
>>And if it had run on the PDP-11 it'd still be in use.

>And if DMR had gotten his -10, think where we'd all be.

We'd all be running VMS.

DMR didn't get a -10 because it was too expensive. If he'd done something on
a -10, it'd just be another footnote in the history of Bell Labs because there
wouldn't have been the massive groundswell of support for an operating system
that you could actually do good things with on machines you could actually
afford on a departmental budget.

>Unix didn't kill off PDP-10s, you know.

I didn't say that. I didn't say UNIX was the "new thing" either, even if I
*did* use TOPS before UNIX. You're sticking other people's words in my
mouth.

Would you really rather be using VMS?

If Microsoft has anything to say about it... you will be.
