5 Feb
2008
5 Feb
'08
1:43 p.m.
At 3:52 PM -0500 2/5/08, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, der Mouse wrote:
The VAX-11/750 currently in my basement certainly doesn't have a PDP-8
installed in it. Pictures:
http://computer-refuge.org/compcollect/dec/vax/11750/index.html
An 11/780 does have a PDP-11/03 in it as a console subsystem (it's
really really not a front-end processor, no sane person would let a
user bang away at the console of an 11/780
I'm with Pat on this. I managed a lot of /780s; they all had LSI-11s
as the front end.
Also, never saw a /750 with a PDP-8 front end. Managed a few of
these too, though this timeframe is a bit hazy. According to Gordon
Bell
<http://research.microsoft.com/Users/gbell/Digital/timeline/32-bit.htm>
the /750 was introduced in late 1980.
John
ever
heard of the Vax 11/750 ? You know, the one with the PDP-8 FEP
?
Sure you don't mean the 780? I didn't think the 750 had a FEP at
all; at least, on the ones I used I didn't see anything identifiably
FEPish, either hardware or software. (I also *think* the 750 wasn't
around pre-1980, but I'm a lot less sure of that.)