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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-08-03 22:13, John Dallman 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.

Well, clearly the "Prism reused in Alpha" is hardware. Alpha is just 
hardware, and so was Prism.

The software was called Mica. Which, by the way, sortof reminds me a bit 
of Domain/OS from Apollo.

   Johnny