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- From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au (Paul Repacholi)
- Subject: Re: DR bad, VAX PRO good
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.140422.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <01GO9M76948G94DQA0@MONMOUTH-etdl1.Army.MIL>,<1SEP199210172255@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu> <1992Sep1.221944.12789@cpu.com>,<3SEP199210004588@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu>,<1992Sep4.135230.2305@cpu.com> <n5mn#n=@lynx.unm.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 05:04:22 GMT
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- In article <n5mn#n=@lynx.unm.edu>, boardman@cancer.unm.edu (Bob Boardman) writes:
- > In article <1992Sep4.135230.2305@cpu.com>,
- > gwlester@cpu.com (Gerald W. Lester) writes:
- >>In article <3SEP199210004588@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu>,
- > jms@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu (Entia non blah de blah) writes:
- >>>In article <1992Sep1.221944.12789@cpu.com>, gwlester@cpu.com writes...
- >>>>
- >>>>P.S. - I have a Matco mug for pointing out to DR that VMS does *NOT* run on
- >>>> any of the PDP-11 series.
- >>>
- ...
-
- I guess it's now time to drag out the old chestnut again...
- What is the FULL name of the 780?
-
- >>your definition (and with some interesting microcode) I could change a
- >>VAX-11/780 into a PDP-10! Of course with how you just defined a processor
- No, you could not get at enough of the MMU/pager. Was 4 bits too stupid
- as well...
-
- >>series, many of the new VAX models are not a VAX since they use software
- >>emulation to handle some of the instructions.
-
- And prior to that, some Vaxen did not conform to the Vax ARM.
-
- > While VMS probably has not run on a PDP-11, I have a PDP-11 which
- > could be made to run something like VMS - it's an old 11/60, which with
- > the WCS/UCS option (writable control store/user control store), allowed
- > one to actually program one's own microcode. I imagine that given enough
- > time, one could have it running VMS after a fashion.
-
- Ah, any old timers remember obscure references to "the emulator"?
-
- ~Paul
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