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Subject: Symbolics vs pdp11s
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Date: Mon, 13-Feb-84 03:57:52 EST
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From tekred!billr Mon Feb 13 00:57:46 1984
Well, we gave it our best shot but to no avail.  We have a PDP-11
to which we wanted to connect up a laser printer.  At the time
Symbolics seemed like the best choice so we took a shot at
converting their software to run on an '11.  (They said it was
written for a vax, but couldn't say whether it would work on an '11.)
Unfortunately, the code is full of assumptions that ints are 32-bits.

Being uneconomical to convert, we are now going to look at the QMS
which apparently is already running on pdps.