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   Paolo Amoroso (amoroso@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 22:16:52 JST Paolo Amoroso

   An insigthful analysis on why there are no minicomputers anymore. More specifically it discusses why the minicomputer form factor, architecture, and vendors disappeared.

   https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/why-are-there-no-minicomputers-any

   #minicomputer #retrocomputing

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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 22:16:52 JST gnutelephony

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     @amoroso they are also a bit too large space wise for fans of retro computing ;). Though maybe someone could make a #RetroComputing "micro" sized PDP-11 using a RPI and cpu emulator. Other kinds of old architectures have already been resurrected in this manner. Now, if I only still had my teletype model 33 asr...

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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 22:33:32 JST gnutelephony

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     @amoroso yes, something like that :).

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     Paolo Amoroso (amoroso@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 22:33:33 JST Paolo Amoroso

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     • gnutelephony

     @gnutelephony Like the PiDP-11?

     https://hackaday.io/project/8069-pidp-11