Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 27. Feb 2025, 02:01:19
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On 26 Feb 2025 19:51:56 -0500, Rich Alderson wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
Still, they were the product line that launched DEC's computer career,
with the PDP-1.
Since DEC's original intent was to build small computers (at their
founding in 1957), that's rather a fatuous statement.
Notice the “-1” in “PDP-1”? That’s how you know it was first.