27 Apr
2016
27 Apr
'16
11:16 a.m.
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Swift Griggs wrote:
3. I know for a fact the US government and a few other folks are pretty
well stuck with using Alphas for "certain" things. If the vendor was
OK'd by the gubment, there might be some money to be made there, too.
That is interesting. So does Raytheon or someone still make a custom CPU
with the Alpha ISA? Or maybe foundryless, soft core, etc. I wasn't aware
of that.
I was browsing around a few months back and found a catalog from a Russian
electronics company. Current catalog ... and they appear to still be doing
PDP-11 ... I know for sure ... and possibly VAX ... might be confabulating
that ... CPUs. I thought that was neat. Assumedly for some mil-spec use.
Best,
Sean