[TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised

[George Michaelson]

I never ran it. It was a huge, ceramic enclosed DIP. Ginormous.
BIggest chip I'd ever seen. I think it required dual voltages.

I can see specsheets for what is called a J11. I don't think I
remember it looking like that, but it was a long time ago.

-G

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 7:56 PM, emanuel stiebler <emu at e-bbes.com> wrote:
> 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?