16 May
1999
16 May
'99
3:04 a.m.
<programming job was to upgrade an 11/780 from 2.4 to 3.0. It took most of
<weekend, not helped by the fact that you had to install different versions
<of the microcode at various points during the upgrade, and it took 30+
Yes, there were a lot of people that suggested the next upgrades should be
easier.
<minutes to discover that you'd got the wrong one in. The 8" floppy on an
<11/78x was not renowned for speed. ISTR that the interface was one bit wide
The LSI-11 to vax hardware was wider I think 16bits bt the microcode was
some 60-80 bits so it took a long tome to build a few words of uCode.
Allison