5 Oct
1998
5 Oct
'98
12:46 p.m.
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
Yep. I wasn't thinking and didn't remember a previous discussion I'd had
with Allison about the fact that the 11/03 and 11/23 are
"microprocessors".
> > I
believe the first microcomputer to run Unix was the DEC PDP11/03 and
> > 11/23 at At&T's Bell Labs (see the papers on mini-unix).
>
> Microprocessor-based computer? Read the question again.
By some definitions, the LSI11/03 and 11/23 are microprocessors (as is
the 11/73 which came later). The definition I use (and we've discussed
this before...) is 'A microprocessor is a processor on a single chip, or
a chipset which is only used to make that processor'. And that includes
the 11/03 and 11/23 If you won't allow these as microprocessors then
you certainly have to
exclude the F14 processor as well...
Not necessarily. Again, the SLF chip COULD function without the other
chips in the set.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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