[TUHS] 11/40E and 11/60
Johnny Billquist
bqt at update.uu.se
Wed Oct 29 08:54:43 AEST 2014
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 at ronnatalie.com
> <mailto:ron at ronnatalie.com>> wrote:
>
>
>> On Oct 28, 2014, at 2:22 PM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com
>> <mailto:clemc at 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
>
>
>
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