23 Jun
2010
23 Jun
'10
9:12 a.m.
Johnny Billquist [bqt at softjar.se] wrote:
I wasn't aware that any prototypes ever were
produced and
came as far as
being functional. I thought it was just paper work that had bee done.
iirc CASTOR and POLLUX were PDP-11/74s that were actually used by one of
the
DEC PDP-11 software groups for a while. (Or maybe the PDP-11/74 was used
for
a while and then broken up to form CASTOR and POLLUX ... )
Nice to hear. Too bad the machine never got to
production. It
would have
been a nice system...
I've read somewhere that it was full of flat ribbon cables and would
have been a beast to maintain.
Antonio