[TUHS] 11/40E and 11/60 (was: speaking of early C compilers)

[clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole)]

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.

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Ronald Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:

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> On Oct 28, 2014, at 2:22 PM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
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> 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 ;-).
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> Apparently they were at least advertised as available for the 780.
> http://h18000.www1.hp.com/info/SP2509/SP2509PF.PDF
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