[Info-vax] CPU Refresher for Programmers

[Chris Scheers]

MICHAEL W FARRELL wrote:
> I once had to support a system that ran on one of those machines.  It 
> had core memory.
> 
> I guess the fans did this, but once the rails on the machine in which 
> the motherboard rested horizontally, came loose, fell out and the 
> motherboard fell out of the machine while it was running because of all 
> the vibration.
> 
> That thing was down more than it was up.
> 
> Mike Farrell

If it had core memory, it was one of the early NOVA machines.  (Roughly 
equivalent to a PDP-11.)




> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johnny Billquist via Info-vax" 
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> Cc: "Johnny Billquist" <bqt at softjar.se>
> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 6:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] CPU Refresher for Programmers
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> 
>> On 2016-01-19 00:45, Chris Scheers wrote:
>>> IanD wrote:
>>>> I think the OS was Aviion? Didn't that morph into the OS behind EMC's
>>>> storage frames?
>>>
>>> The main MV OSes were AOS/VS and AOS/VS II.
>>
>> Ah, yes! Thanks. AOS - Advanced Operating System. Fancy name for a 
>> pretty ugly OS.
>>
>>> IIRC, Aviion was the name originally used for their RISC hardware
>>> (Motorola 88000?).  The storage arrays were mostly under the Clariion
>>> name.  These storage arrays were EMC's main interest, but they also got
>>> (and killed) the computer parts.
>>
>> Yes, Aviion was Motorola 88000. Later they shifted to Intel hardware.
>> And also thanks for Clariion. That was the name of the storage stuff 
>> that EMC wanted. Wow, how much one forgets...
>>
>>>> When I worked in the electronic field (basic stuff), the future was
>>>> designer chips. That whole line of stuff never went anywhere and the
>>>> rise of the commodity chips came to power. Now power itself is a major
>>>> focus, since the true cost of energy is being realised
>>>
>>> FWIW: The DG MV hardware with the ring capabilities was the basis for
>>> the book "The Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder.
>>
>> Yes. The 32-bit Eclipse... An ugly machine...
>>
>> Johnny
>>
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