28 Oct
2014
28 Oct
'14
10:54 p.m.
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 <ron(a)ronnatalie.com
<mailto:ron@ronnatalie.com>> wrote:
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On Oct 28, 2014, at 2:22 PM, Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com
<mailto:clemc@ccc.com>> 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