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Re: The Lambda lambada...Why embedded SQL is becoming irrelevant and why you should s

Richard

2007-03-15, 3:55 am

On Mar 15, 2:48 pm, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashw...@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote:
> "Charles Hottel" <chot...@earthlink.net> wrote in message

> The PDP8 was a 12 bit word machine so I'm not sure where the "8" came from.
> In fact all of the designated numbers are a mystery to me. Perhaps someone
> reading this can shed some light on it?

It was the 8th machine designed by DEC. There certainly were PDP7s
and PDP9s. The PDP9 was an 8 with floating point hardware if I recall
correctly. The PDP-6 led to the 10th which was the KA10, then there
was the PDP-11.

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