15 Jun
2005
15 Jun
'05
10:46 a.m.
Speaking of the CDC and its PPU's...
Does anyone have software to use on the 6600 emulator?
Has anyone put one of these machines onto VLSI?
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Donzelli" <aw288 at osfn.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: PDP-8s and -10s
You mean,
analogous to CDC's PPUs? One guess: that wasn't an option
on the PDP-6, and the 10 is the compatible successor to the 6.
Yes, good example.
I do not think adding some sort of -8 powered channel stuff to the KA
would have disrupted things much at all - there just was not a huge number
of PDP-6 installations to disrupt. Likewise, they could have included
backwards compatibility.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org