20 Oct
1999
20 Oct
'99
6:52 a.m.
CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com wrote:
Exactly - it's not a question of "do we have
the parts?" but "Can
we connect all the parts together usefully?".
Yep.
Is it true that the first CPU-on-a-single-board was
the DG Nova?
(And it's a rather largish board, at that! Almost equivalent in
area to all the boards in the PDP-8/E CPU put together...)
I'm not sure. The Nova certainly used large boards - 15" * 15"
- and while the original nova (and I believe supernova) and
nova 1200 got by with just one, it the 800 family used two of
those huge things. Since mechanical engineering was never a
strong suit at DG it's generally accepted to use a rubber mallet
or wooden drift to seat those boards into the backplane...
Best,
Chris
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