Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System

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On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 09:15:02 -0700, John Ames wrote:

> I've always found the 9900 concept interesting, although its core
> assumption about memory speed doesn't really hold up today; much of the
> architecture was eventually reincarnated in TI's MSP430 series micro-
> controllers, but they ditched the memory-resident register file. But for
> the time, context-switching certainly didn't get any faster than that;
> only three actual registers to save, but you still got a comfortably
> PDP-11ish environment from the programmer's perspective.

I worked on one project that used the 9900. Its claim to fame is TI had a 
rad hard version.

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  Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2024-10-02 09:15 -0700
    Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2024-10-02 09:21 -0700
    Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-10-02 16:35 +0000
      Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2024-10-02 09:49 -0700
        Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-10-02 22:28 +0000
          Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2024-10-02 15:59 -0700
      Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-02 18:07 -0700
        Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-10-03 01:46 +0000
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        Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-03 21:44 +0000
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