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Subject:Re: Hi! What's a PDP-11? Anyone know? From:Richard Mateosian <srm -at- C2 -dot- ORG> Date:Tue, 23 Jan 1996 13:42:34 -0800
The other point I meant to respond to in my last posting was:
>They spawned a new paradigm in computers, that of
>"interactive computing."
I think CTSS at MIT predates the PDP line by several years, and so do some
commercial timesharing services. Kemeny and Kurtz developed BASIC c. 1965
for a timesharing system, not a minicomputer. I don't think they were
responding to a "new paradigm" spawned by minicomputers. ...RM
