[TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised

emanuel stiebler emu at e-bbes.com
Mon Mar 26 05:56:30 AEST 2018


On 2018-03-20 11:56, George Michaelson wrote:
> I got given the last generation PDP-11 on a chip, in a 72pin DIP. I
> gave it to somebody else who could use it. At the time, I thought it
> was Teh Awesome l33t to have an entire pdp11 on one chip. imagine! my
> god, the power, the power. I think the day is coming when a CPU has
> gold pins top and bottom. they have a very large number of pins.
> Somebody smart will have to invent code to work out how to wire the
> pins. Oh, hang on, thats why Djikstra's algorrithm which lies at the
> heart of routing protocols was written back in the day. oh dear.. its
> turtles all the way down isn't it?

Could you tell us more about this 72-pin version of a pdp11?



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