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by dekhn 265 days ago
an enormous amount of software was developed on the PDP-10 and PDP-11 and later VAX systems that could not have been done on microcomputers in the day. You can't just compare raw RAM and clock rates, the PDPs were set up for multi-user productivity on complex problems and had a wide range of system software to enable building and deploying advanced software.