7 May
2007
7 May
'07
8:55 p.m.
Hi Rich,
I don't see why he'd specifically need a vax, with all of the CPU
cores available (such as those used in MAME and other emulators) sounds
like you could tap one of the CPU core emulation guys to custom tailer a
CPU core environment for the guy, of course you'd then need a compiler
and other utils customized for the task as well, still doable, but no
reason it could'nt be done on a PC under Windows or Linux or even on a
MAC under OSX
Curt
Richard A. Cini wrote:
All:
I got an unusual phone call this evening from a doctor on Long Island
who is doing theoretical biological research that, he hopes, will have a
commercial application. Without going into much detail (because it was like
drinking from a fire hose and I can?t remember it all), basically he is
looking to emulate some biological processes in software. He believes that
the ?instructions? that code for the biological processes are based on 6-bit
instructions (or multiples thereof), so he?s looking for someone with that
kind of architectural background. A PDP-8 has 12-bit instructions and I
think the PDP-9 and 15 used 18-bit words. I?m not knowledgeable about any of
the other minicomputer architectures to guess word size, but anything that?s
a low multiple of 6-bits should work for his purposes.
If anyone?s willing to have a conversation with this person, please
contact me off list and I?ll pass on his contact information.
Thanks.
Rich
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Rich Cini
Collector of Classic Computers
Build Master and lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
http://www.altair32.com
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp