15 Jul
2015
15 Jul
'15
1:56 p.m.
From: Sherman Foy
Re: the 12, you were either in LINC mode or PDP mode
at any given time.
These were NOT "parallel processors".
I don't disagree. I was speaking of the LINC-8, which was a very different
machine inside - it really was an 8 _and_ a LINC in a single box. The front
console actually had a complete PDP-8 console _and_ a complete LINC console,
side by side - two sets of lights, two sets of switches, etc.
I can't vouch for this on a LINC-8 machine, but I
thought it was similar.
Nope. Check out the manual I cited. Well, the LINC-8 and -12 might be similar
(almost identical, probably) from the _programming_ point of view, but the
hardware was organized totally differently (above).
Noel