21 Feb
2012
21 Feb
'12
6:14 p.m.
On 02/21/2012 08:48 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
Huh.
I have no such evidence, but I regard it as fairly common knowledge.
It was explained to me by a DECcie when I was a kid in the early
1980s. How authoritative is the "person who would have known"? The guy
who explained it to me could very well have been mistaken.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Not the FIS,
but the LSI-11 chipset itself, either four or five
chips. It's the WD Pascal MicroEngine chipset, with its microcode
rewritten to execute the PDP-11 instruction set.
Um.
At the time that the WD Pascal MicroEngine came out, I was informed
(by someone who would have known) that *it* was a re-use of the LSI-11
chip set using new microcode. That was 30+ years ago, so I have no
way to back it up now, but I'm going to challenge you to provide the
evidence that WD came first.