11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
7:33 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 6:55 PM, David Betz<dbetz at xlisper.com> wrote:
On Jun 11, 2009, at 9:41 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
Interesting. I don't suppose their PDP-10 chips are available for purchase
separately? Maybe we could get Bob Armstrong of SparetimeGizmos to build a
PDP-10 kit!
That would be amazing.
John Floren
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From:
David Betz
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 6:32 PM
On Jun 11, 2009, at 9:19 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
>> Are you saying those fiber network boxes
are running TOPS-20?
> Yes.
Wow! That's very cool. Can we also assume
that the processor(s) in
those boxes use the PDP-10 instruction set or have they ported TOPS-20
to another processor?
The former. ?TOPS-20 has a number of PDP-10 assumptions built into it,
mostly
because it is written in PDP-10 assembler, and would be difficult to port.