Retrospective: what have we learned from the PDP-11—what we have learned from VAX and Alpha

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Retrospective: what have we learned from the PDP-11—what we have learned from VAX and Alpha

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International Symposium on Computer Architecture archive
25 years of the international symposia on Computer architecture (selected papers) table of contents

Barcelona, Spain

Pages: 6 - 10

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:1-58113-058-9

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Gorden Bell	Senior Researcher Microsoft Corp., Bay Area Research Center, San Francisco, CA
W. D. Strecker	Sr. VP and Chief Technology Officer, Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA

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IEEE-CS\TCCA : TC on Computer Arhitecture
SIGARCH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	1	Gordon Bell , William D. Strecker, Computer structures: What have we learned from the PDP-11?, Proceedings of the 3rd annual symposium on Computer architecture, p.1-14, January 19-21, 1976
	2	C. G. Bell, R. Cady, H. McFarland, B. Delagi, J. O'Laughlin, R. Noonan and W. Wulf, "A New Architecture for Mini-Computers - The DEC PDP- 11," Proceedings of the Sprint Joint Computer Conference, pp. 657-675, AFIPS Press, 1970.
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	5	W. D. Strecker, "Clustering VAX Superminicomputers Into Large Multiprocessor Systems," Electronics, pp. 143-146, October 20, 1983.
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	7	Gordon Bell, Toward a history of (personal) workstations, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on The history of personal workstations, p.1-17, January 09-10, 1986, Palo Alto, California, United States [doi>10.1145/12178.12179]
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