What is DECdatasystem?

Rick Murphy rick at rickmurphy.net
Tue Oct 25 22:02:04 CDT 2005


At 10:16 PM 10/25/2005, Wolfe, Julian wrote:
>Okay, looking over the web, I've seen several PDP11 machines marked
>"DECdatasystem"... They don't seem to have anything in common...it's 
>like a
>random marking DEC decided to put on machines.   Anyone know what it 
>means?

Usually it's a machine with an OS that runs DIBOL programs. COS-310 for 
the 8s, CTS-300 for the 11s if I remember correctly. As stated already, 
mostly a marketing term for already existing system configurations.
         -Rick



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