9 Mar
2011
9 Mar
'11
1:50 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I'm not aware of any retail or hobbyist boxes of
the time that used
either the 9440 or the SBP9900, are you?
No, but then there weren't many hobbyist boxes using the PPS-8, F100-L,
PACE, IMP-16, WD16/MCP1600, LP8000, or iAPX-432 either. The conclusion
I reach is simply that obscure microprocessors that had a relatively
poor price/performance ratio saw little hobbyist use.
Contrast that with a few boxes constructed on the
IM6100.
The IM6100 wasn't nearly as expensive as the 9440, and there was more
public-domain PDP-8 software than public-domain Nova software.
Eric