1 Nov
2000
1 Nov
'00
3:13 a.m.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
at
I wonder if my DPS-6 could run Multics? I would
like to think it has to
have some coolness factor other than being big and impressive :)
Having worked on both (although in the case of the DPS-6 only briefly) I'm
fairly sure that they're not. For one thing IIRC, GCOS-6 and GCOS-8 were least somewhat different.
What someone really needs to do is write a freeware emulator for the
DPS-8.
I know at least one commercial DPS-6 emulator exists.
And, no, I'm not
about to tackle writing one.
Personally I think the DPS-6 is a bit boring, but a multiprocessor DPS-8
configuration is a really cool piece of hardware!
We only just in the last few weeks finally got a listing of the
full DPS-8/M instruction set (or was it the Level 68?) posted to
the web. So at least one of the most important resources for
getting started is now available...
-dq