[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

Bob Koehler koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org
Mon Nov 30 12:04:04 EST 2009


In article <alpine.LFD.2.00.0911301022310.12986 at libra.gmcl.internal>, Rob Brown <mylastname at gmcl.com> writes:
> 
> I'm not sure whether you consider it "new" or not, but back in 2003 
> (or earlier?) they sold the M11 processor board.  At 
> <http://web.archive.org/web/20031128165506/www.mentec-inc.com/m11specs.htm> 
> it says "PDP-11 instructions are implemented by a microprogrammed 
> subsystem based on the TI 8832 ALU and the TI 8818A microsequencer."

   Yeah, I would call that new.  As far as I recall, DEC's last PDP-11
   processors were DEC's own single chip CPUs.

   And I'm quite certain SIMH can run circles around them.




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