From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bqt@update.uu.se (Johnny Billquist) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:54:43 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] 11/40E and 11/60 In-Reply-To: References: <544FD684.6090001@update.uu.se> Message-ID: <54501EB3.5030205@update.uu.se> On 2014-10-28 20:03, Clem Cole wrote: > That SPF shows a date of 1987. Masscomp was '83 for the FP and 84 for > the APU and I know we could not get them - but then again KO was mad at > us. At that point we had more of the 780 HW guys then DEC did, plus a > bunch of ex-VMS and ex-LDP folks. The nasty-gram letter from Ken was > framed and hung out the office of one of the VPs (I wonder if Palmer of > one of the other Masscomp pack rats still has a picture of it). > > I know we tried to get it for our Vax, and it was a clear - no way. That SPD is from 1987, true. But that is for version 3.0... I know that the user microcode option for the 11/780 is really much older than that. But I wonder how many actually ever purchased it? Johnny > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Ronald Natalie > wrote: > > >> On Oct 28, 2014, at 2:22 PM, Clem Cole > > wrote: >> >> >> BTW: the 780 & 750 had ustore but it was not user documented and >> the tools were internal. Paul Guilbo wrote much of both and >> later would write the uCode for the Masscomp FPU and APU. Paul >> was bitching about the great tool(s) they had had at DEC, so one >> weekend two of us on the SW team got sick of his bitching a couple >> of us hacked up a uCode assembler in the same key in Yacc/lex/C >> (not BLISS ;-). > > Apparently they were at least advertised as available for the 780. > http://h18000.www1.hp.com/info/SP2509/SP2509PF.PDF > > > -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol