blogpost: Tektronix terminals and Apollo DN10000 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

4 May 2008

Ken Seefried wrote:
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  From: Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at
gmail.com>

 As I understand it, the DN10K uses a custom RISC processor and not a
 680x0. 
 Indeed - a88k (not to be confused with m88k) wasn't it?   
 Not m88k.  Totally custom job called PRISM. 
No, not m88k.  I've always seen them referenced as a88k (to distinguish from 
m88k!), but I'd forgotten that PRISM was also an official name for them...

Surprisingly, there's actually a wiki article about the processor:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_PRISM

cheers

Jules