27 Jun
1998
27 Jun
'98
10:40 p.m.
On Jun 27, 19:34, Doug Yowza wrote:
Subject: Re: OS's In ROM's (was: Re: Mac
Classic prob (was
Macintoshes..
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Pete Turnbull wrote:
MIPS chips are MIPS chips. SGI own MIPS, but don't manufacture the
devices. NEC, Philips, Toshiba, amongst others, do, but they didn't design
them. The VR4xxx series that NEC use are derivatives of the standard R4000
and R5000 series.
You're possibly right about ARM and CE, though. Several companies have
licenced the technology, but most of the ARM-based devices (eg the Psion 5,
Newton) use Psion's OS or JavaOS, not CE.
On Jun 27, 16:50, Hotze wrote:
Are you guys both smoking the same stuff? CE does not exist for PA-RISC
or SGI MIPS, and while it does exist for Acorn/Digital/Intel ARM, it
hasn't shipped on any real hardware platform that I know of.
It has shipped on a couple of NEC MIPS derivatives and Hitachi SH. Most Windows CE devices are based on HP/NEC
PA-RISC (IIRC)
processors, or SGI MIPS processors.
Or Acorn/Digital StrongARM. There
is also support for ARM, PPC, and x86, but I haven't heard of any
hardware
shipping for those platforms.
ObCC-Q: What was the first microprocessor-based box to
run Unix?
ObCC-A: The Z8000-based Onyx C8002 in 1980.
What about the 11/23 systems Bell Labs were using in 1978?
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
28 Jun
28 Jun
1:28 a.m.
ObCC-Q: What
was the first microprocessor-based box to run Unix?
ObCC-A: The Z8000-based Onyx C8002 in 1980.
What about the 11/23 systems Bell Labs were using in 1978?
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
from 11/45's (if my memory is correct).
Bill
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New subject: OS's In ROM's (was: Re: Mac Classic prob (was Macintoshes..
At 09:28 AM 28-06-98 -0400, Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote:
It depends whether you consider the 11/23 a mini or
micro.
Both :-) But given that it has a single chip implementation of the CPU
(commonly known as a microprocessor :-) I'd have to call it a micro...
Certainly my 11/83 is a micro/mini/as fast as an VAX-11/780 so I'm not sure
whether its a micro/mini/super-mini :-)
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6:29 a.m.
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Pete Turnbull wrote:
I have to plead DEC-hardware ignorance. Did the 11/23 use a single-chip
micro (the LSI-11, according to Allison)? If so, then please add
"non-DEC" to my Q :-)
-- Doug
MIPS chips are MIPS chips. SGI own MIPS, but
don't manufacture the
devices. NEC, Philips, Toshiba, amongst others, do, but they didn't design
them. The VR4xxx series that NEC use are derivatives of the standard R4000
and R5000 series.
Didn't SGI recently re-spinoff MIPS as an independent concern? In any
case, while the core ISA should be the same, NEC developed the VR4101 and
VR4102 specifically for CE, and I doubt that you'll find the chips in any
SGI box. I got invalid links when I tried to look at the specs at NEC's
site, but I think the CE-specifics were probably in areas of power
management and on-chip peripherals.
I also looked at HP's specs for their handhelds, and their marketdroids
simply listed "RISC" processor in an effort to hide the fact that their
not using their own processors, I suppose.
You're possibly right about ARM and CE, though.
Several companies have
licenced the technology, but most of the ARM-based devices (eg the Psion 5,
Newton) use Psion's OS or JavaOS, not CE.
It's public knowledge that Microsoft added ARM support for WinCE 2.1, but
that version of the OS is not shipping for any platform. In fact, 2.1 was
still beta last I checked (a couple of weeks ago).
ObCC-Q: What
was the first microprocessor-based box to run Unix?
ObCC-A: The Z8000-based Onyx C8002 in 1980.
What about the 11/23 systems Bell Labs were using in 1978? 
8:50 a.m.
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On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
Not single chip, but certainly a single chipset.
[...]
I class that as a micro, but I don't know if
others would.
So, where do you draw the line? I draw it at one piece of silicon that
can stand alone with the usual support chips (ROM, RAM, glue chips).
-- Doug
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