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Subject:Re: Hi! What's a PDP-11? Anyone know? From:David Somers <dmps -at- EURONET -dot- NL> Date:Wed, 24 Jan 1996 01:11:35 +-100
<Blowing the dust off a set of manuals, the old man shifts forward in =
his
chair, ignoring the pain in his arthritic knees.>
PDP-11? You don't know about the machine that was central to the =
evolution
of modern computing?
Is it just me, but I'm suddenly feeling very old. I thought everybody =
knew what a PDP-11 was! Next, people will be saying they don't know that =
"Real Programmers don't use PASCAL".
From a Real Typographer (and defiantly not a Quiche Eater),
