[Info-vax] BOINC for VMS

[John Wallace]

On Mar 15, 4:38 pm, Michael Unger <spam.to.un... at spamgourmet.com>
wrote:
> On 2012-03-15 04:33, "Michael Kraemer" wrote:
>
> > [...]
>
> > For these, intel/Motorola/TI etc would have been a better place
> > to go for DEC back then.
>
> TI did offer general purpose CPUs back in those days?? I'm aware of
> signal processors only ...
>
> > [...]
>
> Michael
>
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Look up TMS9900 and friends from back in the early 1980s. A family of
16bit micros, sometimes not very accurately referred to as similar to
PDP11 (anyone who's worked with both will know there's not really much
in common beyond autoincrement mode). Available in variations from
board level for minicomputers, or MOS for the TMS9900 family as used
in the TI99/4 home computer and some low end equivalents of the TI990
minicomputer, or bipolar (the SBP9900/9989) as used in some of the
earliest production models of microprocessor-based controllers for
aircraft engines.

TI and DSP came somewhat later. TI in their early life were famous for
things like 74xx TTL and 741/748 op amps and the like.


Lots of companies, including TI at one stage, had visions of being big
in the home computer market. Lots of companies didn't make it.