On 1 Oct 98 at 9:32, Allison J Parent wrote:
< And of course DECsystems might be 36 bit
(DECsystem-10 for example), 32
< (DECsystem 5500) or something else (wasn't there a DECsystem based on
< either an -8
< or -11? for word processing). I also seem to recall that there were Inte
< based DECstations too....
There were two different DEC systems for word processing:
WPS 100 and 200 series were PDP-8E or 8A cpus
WPS78 6100 CMOS version of PDP-8
DECmate later version of the CMOS based word procesors using the 6120
version of the CMOS PDP-8 on a chip.
A possibly incomplete list of DEC systems and what the cpu was used...
more or less. These are all "chip" based so it leaves out the PDP-1
through 15 series machines.
DECMATE series 6120 processor (a PDP8 in CMOS)
VAXmate Intel 80286 oriented as diskless PC workstation for vaxen.
DECstation MIPS series
Rainbow 8088/z80
Pro3xx PDP-11 (f11 or J11 chips)
PDT-11 series KDA11 (LSI-11 series)
Falcon T-11 series pdp-11 chip
Vt180 (AKA Robin) Z80
MicroVAX
VAXstation
VAXserver These are VAX systems based on Microvax, CVAX, NVAX and
later 32bit VAX based chips.
Alpha 64bit archetecture and the chip series based on it.
Allison
Allison, just how compatable were the Rainbow and Decmate ll.
I have a Decmatell Word Processing 2 book manual no disks and
another Decmate Hardware Configuration Manual with a System
Test Disk and a system overview disk which I have viewed on my
"Bow. From all the diagrams they were identical in appearance and
seemed to have used the same keyboard and monitor. IIRC from
the R'bow fido docs I downloaded from the Finnish site the Bow
could use SCO UNIX (?) Was the 'bow able to access the mini's ?
ciao larry
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