From: hansolofalcon@att.net (Gregg C Levine)
Subject: [TUHS] b remnants?
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:29:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <009301cc8cea$0143d3c0$03cb7b40$@net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E9C5569.6090202@bitsavers.org>
Hello!
Okay with that in mind, what about someone (or something) creating an FPGA
based Xerox Alto?
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Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon at att.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org [mailto:tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org]
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> Behalf Of Al Kossow
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 12:19 PM
> To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] b remnants?
>
> On 10/15/11 9:41 AM, Gregg Levine wrote:
>
> > With today's FPGA technology someone should revive the TX-0 and the
> > TX-1 that way......
> >
>
> I assume you meant TX-2. There was never a TX-1.
> TX-0 simulation was working in MESS, there is code around for TX-0
> including a couple of games.
> TX-2 was a moving target. The instruction set changed quite a bit during
> its lifetime and little code is available. There has been interest in the
> past for trying to revive Sketchpad, but Ivan Sutherland isn't interested
> in releasing the code when I've talked to him about it.
> One of the more interesting east to west coast connections is the TX-2
> BCPL compiler was the basis for the BCPL on the Xerox Alto.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-17 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-15 16:14 Jason Stevens
2011-10-15 16:41 ` Gregg Levine
2011-10-17 16:18 ` Al Kossow
2011-10-17 16:29 ` Gregg C Levine [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-15 4:20 Jason Stevens
2011-10-15 4:37 ` Gregg Levine
2011-10-15 8:44 ` Michael Davidson
2011-10-14 18:23 Jason Stevens
2011-10-14 14:52 A. P. Garcia
2011-10-14 15:34 ` Derrik Walker
2011-10-14 15:53 ` Gregg Levine
2011-10-14 16:35 ` Derrik Walker
2011-10-14 19:17 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2011-10-14 20:08 ` John Cowan
2011-10-14 18:06 ` Tim Newsham
2011-10-15 3:57 ` A. P. Garcia
2011-10-15 4:57 ` Andru Luvisi
2011-10-15 8:54 ` Michael Davidson
2011-10-15 14:12 ` Gregg Levine
2011-11-01 16:24 ` Tim Bradshaw
2011-10-15 6:20 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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