23 Jun
2010
23 Jun
'10
10:28 p.m.
<arcarlini at iee.org> wrote:
Yes, that is one of the stories I've heard too. But that was related to
the mP systems. The 11/74 CPU as such could (I assume) be run in a
single processor configuration as well, just like the 11/70. In which
case, you'd just have an upgraded 11/70, which would have been nice.
Johnny
Johnny Billquist [bqt at softjar.se] wrote:
No, both CASTOR and POLLUX was running at the same time for a while.
CASTOR was used by the RSX development group while POLLUX was either
DECnet or field service. I can't remember which.
But I'm fairly sure that CASTOR and POLLUX were just 11/70mP systems.
> I wasn't aware that any prototypes ever
were produced and
> came as far as
> being functional. I thought it was just paper work that had bee done.
iirc CASTOR and POLLUX were PDP-11/74s that were actually used by one of
the
DEC PDP-11 software groups for a while. (Or maybe the PDP-11/74 was used
for
a while and then broken up to form CASTOR and POLLUX ... ) > Nice to
hear. Too bad the machine never got to production. It
> would have
> been a nice system...
I've read somewhere that it was full of flat ribbon cables and would
have been a beast to maintain.