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Barry Margolin (barmar@nic.near.net) wrote:

: The VAX 8000 series needed an 8086 PC front-end to boot them!

I've got no idea what this has to do with Multics, but the 8000 series
VAX console device was a PDP-11 (a Pro, but an 11 nevertheless).

Now back to our regular Multics related postings....
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