19 Jun
2007
19 Jun
'07
10:03 a.m.
On Jun 19, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
*snicker* Yes that would be fun. But man...there are quite a few
really big boards in that machine. That would take some doing!
Many, many
machines were built in this way...I only use the
VAX-11/730 and DECsystem-2020 as examples because I have them sitting
here.
Every once in a while, a fit overcomes me and I contemplate what it
would take to re-implement the KS20 with a stack of 2901s and a pile
of fast SRAM. Fortunately, the madness passes before I can do much
more than think about it. It'd be cool, but I'd probably be better off
trying to follow in the
footsteps of one of the 10-in-an-FPGA projects. For the forseeable
future, though, I'll probably stick to klh10 (and should get around to
ordering the last parts to finish my "Panda Display" blinkenlights).
There seem to have been several of those FPGA projects, but they
keep dying. I guess people don't have a clear idea of the level of
complexity.
It would still be a thrill to boot TOPS-20 on real
hardware that first
time, though.
Indeed it would. I've never booted mine. :-( Someday I will find
a TU45.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL