It is amazing how many DEC users, etc come crawling out of the woodwork. All of them with great stories about how things used to be.
With all this architectural experience there ought to be some strongly held opinions on a processor chip that would do a good job on real-time applications such as emc and still be affordable. I really believe that someplace along the path Intel is going to make the Px unusable for real time. We as a group are going to need to be able to migrate to some other chip-set. Yes, I know I've been smoking the wrong stuff ... or maybe the right stuff. Ideas?? Dave On Jan 3, 2009, at 5:19 PM, Ron Ginger wrote: > Ok, I cant let this one go without a comment. I joined DEC as a sales > engineer in the Ann Arbor Michigan office in Feb 1969. That was still > PDP8 days, the 11 didnt come until 1970. We had a series of > application > systems we sold on PDP8's, and as I recall one of them was for > generating NC code on paper tape. Ive got one box of DEC stuff packed > away, and I think I still have something here about the NC system. > > Under my keyboard as I write this is a PDP15 logo panel, and somewhere > around here there is still a trophy for the biggest PDP12 sale. > > I lasted until the end, bought by Compaq, then by HP, but I took > the HP > early retirement offer. I was in every state in the US, most of > Europe, > Japan, Australia doing sales support or training. It was a hell of a > ride while it lasted. > > ron ginger > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
