Re: The joy of FORTRAN

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

I wonder why DEC's 18-bit range weren't more popular; though I think they had
less consistency between members of the range than DEC's other product
families.

You're once again demonstrating that you don't really know what you're talking
about.

The PDP-1 was indeed a different architecture from the other 18 bit family, but
the PDP-4 was a subset of the PDP-7 was a subset of the PDP-9 was a subset of
the PDP-15.  That's pretty fucking consistent to my way of thinking...

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