From: henry.r.bent@gmail.com (Henry Bent)
Subject: [TUHS] Why did PDPs become so popular?
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 21:47:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBcOtVjxbzOLhkq+xWhZyTW=bO4OgiMrtherqJzkQJj1Vw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D7D27C2-CEDB-4C62-A8B9-AF61CEB96B9C@serissa.com>
On 29 December 2017 at 19:54, Lawrence Stewart <stewart at serissa.com> wrote:
>
> I was part of the team that built the first Alpha machine, the Alpha
> Demonstration Unit, see
> ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/DEC/
> DTJ/DTJ803/DTJ803PF.PDF
>
I couldn't access this on my phone - no FTP client - so I blindly assumed
that it was DEC Technical Journal Vol. 8 no. 3. That turned out to be
completely untrue, but in a perhaps amusing way - one of the articles was
Bob Supnik discussing the reasoning behind the original development of
SIM(H), intended to preserve computing history.
As far as the article you posted - from Vol. 4 no. 3 - the idea that 35
prototypes were created in ECL and running as a multiprocessor system,
taking over 4kW not including the front end, is absolutely remarkable to
me. Does any of that original code for the front end still exist?
-Henry
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2017-12-29 16:38 Larry McVoy
2017-12-29 23:54 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-12-30 0:04 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-30 0:54 ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-12-30 1:47 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-12-30 2:19 ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-12-30 2:35 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-30 2:20 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-31 2:47 ` Henry Bent [this message]
2017-12-30 1:07 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-30 2:30 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-31 3:00 ` Henry Bent
2017-12-31 9:59 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2017-12-31 15:55 ` Paul Winalski
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2017-12-31 5:20 Rudi Blom
2017-12-31 12:56 ` Clement T. Cole
2017-12-31 15:03 ` Steve Simon
2017-12-28 14:05 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-28 15:59 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-28 16:08 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-28 23:28 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-12-29 11:04 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-12-29 23:35 ` Jon Forrest
2017-12-29 23:58 ` Larry McVoy
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2017-12-27 22:25 ` Dave Ritchie
2017-12-27 22:32 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-27 23:44 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-27 23:38 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-12-28 0:07 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-28 0:45 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-12-28 1:39 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-27 21:02 Alec Muffett
2017-12-27 21:50 ` Grant Taylor
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2017-12-27 21:51 ` Clem Cole
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2017-12-28 2:14 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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