From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: emu@e-bbes.com (emanuel stiebler) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 06:38:34 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised In-Reply-To: References: <660e1afc-05c6-6192-2168-23302df0b1ed@e-bbes.com> Message-ID: <3f9a72cd-eca0-2216-fa26-66bdc22d89b4@e-bbes.com> On 2018-03-26 03:44, George Michaelson wrote: > I never ran it. It was a huge, ceramic enclosed DIP. Ginormous. > BIggest chip I'd ever seen. I think it required dual voltages. > > I can see specsheets for what is called a J11. I don't think I > remember it looking like that, but it was a long time ago. That's why I was asking. I know the J11 pretty well, with it's 60 pins, it is big. Was curious about a bigger one ;-) Cheers & thanks! > -G > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 7:56 PM, emanuel stiebler wrote: >> On 2018-03-20 11:56, George Michaelson wrote: >>> I got given the last generation PDP-11 on a chip, in a 72pin DIP. I >>> gave it to somebody else who could use it. At the time, I thought it >>> was Teh Awesome l33t to have an entire pdp11 on one chip. imagine! my >>> god, the power, the power. I think the day is coming when a CPU has >>> gold pins top and bottom. they have a very large number of pins. >>> Somebody smart will have to invent code to work out how to wire the >>> pins. Oh, hang on, thats why Djikstra's algorrithm which lies at the >>> heart of routing protocols was written back in the day. oh dear.. its >>> turtles all the way down isn't it? >> >> Could you tell us more about this 72-pin version of a pdp11? > >