23 Mar
2004
23 Mar
'04
11:46 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:19:26PM -0800, Michael Sokolov wrote:
I'll also have a real console FEP to implement the
functions of Chapter 10 of
the VAX spec... for which I will use some 8 or 16-bit microprocessor of the
appropriate time period. Fortunately there are 8/16-bit microprocessors that
existed at the time of VAX-11/7xx and are still made (Z80 and 8086 come to
mind).
The console FEP in a KA730 is an 8085.
-ethan
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