I never worked for DEC but I did use a number of their systems such as the PDP-11/34, DEC System 20 (or 10, cant remember which), and a bunch of VAXs. DEC, of course, pretty much owned the world with the VAX. The PDP-11/34 was the first system I used that didn't have punch cards. I also remember using a DEC PC-like system but can't recall the name. I never used any of the DEC Alpha based systems. I do remember the Alpha EV-4 processor (also used in the Cray T3D) being a real dog performance wise. DEC did get it right with the EV-5 and follow on processors.
I did, and still do, use Fortran. Most of the heavy lifting around the world (in the science arena) is still done in Fortran but C/C++ continues to increase in popularity.
I also used a number of larger systems such as IBM System 360, IBM System 370, CDC Star100, CDC CYBER 203, CDC CYBER 205, Cray X-MP, Cray-2, Cray Y-MP, Cray C-90, Cray T-90, CRAY T3D, Cray T3E, IBM POWER2, POWER3, and POWER4-based clusters, and most recently various Intel based Linux clusters with typically 10K to 100K cores. The increase in capability, as well as user friendliness, is amazing. I started out using punch cards. It is amazing how things have changed over the 40+ years I have used systems.
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Originally Posted by FromAus
Or for that matter RSX11m+. However to really date myself how about I programmed on PDP8-Es, 11-34s and 11-44s.
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