From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pechter@gmail.com (William Pechter) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 07:43:19 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] B Source Code In-Reply-To: References: <20170914133913.178D618C094@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: I thought Reuters re-microcoded them to be the fastest PDP8 around... So was the DEC Field Service story... Bill -----Original Message----- From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Sent: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 0:00 Subject: Re: [TUHS] B Source Code On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, Noel Chiappa wrote: > Interesting factoid: The PDP-11 initially used a threaded FORTRAN > implementation. In line with the observation above (about a new virtual > machine), DEC actually looked into writing microcode for the -11/60 > (which had a writeable control store) to implement the FORTRAN virtual > machine. Did anyone actually use the WCS? I had visions of implementing CSAV and CRET on our -60, but never did get around to it. Too late now... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."