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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: the end of 18 bits, The joy of FORTRAN
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According to Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net>:
>>system.  The PDP-10 was beloved in academia particularly once DEC
>>turned Tenex into TOPS-20.
>
>I would say 'beloved' by the handful of CS departments (MIT, Havaad
>and Stanford) that actually had one. 

We liked ours at Yale, too.  I know CMU had at least one.



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