11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
6:41 p.m.
From: David Betz
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 6:32 PM
On Jun 11, 2009, at 9:19 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
>> Are you saying those fiber network boxes are
running TOPS-20?
> Yes.
Wow! That's very cool. Can we also assume that the
processor(s) in
those boxes use the PDP-10 instruction set or have they ported TOPS-20
to another processor?
The former. TOPS-20 has a number of PDP-10 assumptions built into it, mostly
because it is written in PDP-10 assembler, and would be difficult to port.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
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