[Info-vax] Continued development of PDP-10 architecture [was Re: Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks]

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-08-03 14:10, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-08-03, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>> On 2023-07-31 08:28, terry-... at glaver.org wrote:
>>>
>>> I remember being at a DECUS symposium where LCG had a mostly-empty
>>> exhibit. I asked "So, what are you people up to, anyway?" and got a behind-
>>> the-curtain view of a Multi-Chip Unit from an unspecified forthcoming
>>> product. The packaging was truly bizarre and nothing at all like previous
>>> DEC designs. It actually looked like something IBM would do.
>>
>> That's how I would describe the modules in the 9000...
>>
> 
> I still wish Prism had become a thing. That would have changed a lot
> of things and (IMHO) for the better, both at hardware and especially
> software level.

Wan't bits of Prism reused in Alpha? Or am I mixing it up with something 
else now?

Anyway, I actually have a block from a 9000 lying around, which is why I 
found Terry's description so matching. It's very much how I would 
describe the modules in the 9000. Not like anything else I've seen from 
DEC, and definitely more in the style of some IBM hardware I've seen.

Sadly, I never got a chance to play with a working 9000. And I don't 
expect any still exist today.

   Johnny