On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > > On Feb 24, 2016, at 2:04 PM, Noel Chiappa <j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> > wrote: > > > > So, what's the best short name for the pair of machines, the PDP-11/05 > and > > PDP-11/10 (which differ only in the nameplate)? > > > > I have generally been calling them the '11/05's, since that's what's on > many > > of the extant drawings, manuals, etc - and DEC seems to prefer the '05' > in > > manual ID's, even when the title references both - e.g. > DEC-11-H05SS-B-D is > > the "PDP-11/05-S, PDP-11/10-S system manual", with the /05 mentioned > first. > > > > However, for the 11/35 and 11/40, which we seem to normally call the > 11/40 > > (again, following DEC's lead - EK-11040-TM-002 is the "PDP-11/40, -11/35 > > system manual", with the /40 mentioned first), the /40 is the end user > > machine. > > > > With the /05 being the OEM machine, and the /10 end user one, we (and > DEC) > > seem to have picked the OEM variant in one as the 'canonical' model, and > in > > the other, the end-user variant. > > Interesting point. FWIW, I have always heard 11/05 and 11/40 respectively. > > paul > > putting all of that original 11/10 stuff aside :-) There is a version of the processor handbook with all 4, and there is a version with just 11/40. I have never seen a processor handbook for just the 11/35, 11/05, or 11/10 by itself. -- @ BillDeg: Web: vintagecomputer.net Twitter: @billdeg <https://twitter.com/billdeg> Youtube: @billdeg <https://www.youtube.com/user/billdeg> Unauthorized Bio <http://www.vintagecomputer.net/readme.cfm>
