I wrote:
I was surprised about an aspect of the KL10 design. To
my astonishment,
he replied, "The reason I made that decision was..."
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
Any chance you could document (for history) what the
aspect was, and why he
did it the way he did?
It had something to do with the use of a PDP-11/40 as the console
front-end processor
(equivalent to a "service processor" in IBM terminology), but unfortunately I
no
longer remember the details of either my question or his answer. I
seem to recall that
neither the question nor answer were anything terribly significant.
On the other
hand, if anyone did have any good questions about the logic design of the KL10
CPU, I could ask him.
Maybe he could be convinved to do one on 'The
Design of the KL-10'?
I'll ask him.