On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 20:37:35 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:

>> The early 1970s PDP-10 (and PDP-8) were the Digital Equipment forerunners of 
>> the later DECSYSTEM and VAX computers.
>
>No; the PDP-6 and PDP-10 were 36-bit machines. The PDP-5 and PDP-8 were 12 bit 
>machines unrelated to the DECSYSTEM-10 and -20 and the VAX-11. The forerunner 
>of the VAX was the 16-bit PDP-11.
>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmed_Data_Processor>

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gil

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