[HECnet] NT 4 on AlphaServer es40

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-02-12 21:57, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 02/12/2013 03:54 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Interesting, I always though the 11/60 held that honor.

Nope. The 11/60 wasn't a big flop. It wasn't a success, admittedly, but
it did sell in some numbers. (I at one time, had four 11/60 machines to
play with in a computer club, and I still have a complete CPU board set
for an 11/60 - no WCS though.)

The limited success of the 11/60 was due to the totally incomprehensible
decision to go for 11/34 feature parity at a time when the 11/70 had
already set the future standard.

But apart from that stupidity, it was a rather nice machine, in a very
nice package.

    I agree; I like 11/60s quite a lot.   My very first computer consulting
gig involved selling and installing a (very) used 11/60 to a private
school in NJ.   I wonder what happened to it.   I really liked that
machine.   Its only real limitation was the 18-bit addressing, and I was
really coveting the WCS capability! (my home machine at the time was an
11/34)

18-bit, no supervisor mode, and no split I/D-space... Just like an 11/34.

	Johnny

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