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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-08-03, John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <uagvj1$b7r$1 at news.misty.com>, bqt at softjar.se (Johnny
> Billquist) wrote:
>
>> On 2023-08-03 14:10, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> > 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.
>> 
>> Weren't bits of Prism reused in Alpha? Or am I mixing it up with 
>> something else now?
>
> Bits of the hardware design, yes. The OS design was abandoned by DEC; the
> concept re-appeared in Windows NT's subsystem architecture, but over time,
> only the Windows subsystem has survived. 
>

Yes, the software (a new OS, a new safer alternative to C, etc) would
have been the most important thing long-term. Oh, well.

Simon.

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