2 Oct
2007
2 Oct
'07
10:46 a.m.
I can't state so categorically but my understanding is that they were very
much the same.
Going back to a conversation of a few weeks ago, when we were
developing/running Verex/Thoth at UBC ca 1980 it was on a 990/10. The next
major step in the project was to develop a distributed kernel for multiple
processors. To this end, 3 bare single board computers based on the 9900
chip
were ordered and received from TI. Something makes me think they were
called
"990/5"s. I remember making up a front panel for the 3 of them with reset
buttons and a few status LEDs to go in the rack with the /10. The idea, of
course, was to use the 9900s because we already had the compilers,etc.
generating code for the 990/10.
Here are some pics of possibly a related system that I posted a while ago.
http://vintagecomputer.net/ti/TI-990-101/
Bill D