Long Range PDP-11 Plans

This interoffice memorandum, dated October 17, 1973, from Ken Olsen to Gordon Bell and Bob Puffer, explores a hypothetical scenario: if Digital were restricted to producing only two models of the PDP-11 line in the future, which ones should be chosen and how should resources be concentrated? Olsen questions the potential impact of focusing heavily on specific machines, LSI implementation, and optimized power supplies, suggesting that such a concentration of engineering and production could potentially make these machines so cost-effective that they would dominate the market.