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Re: QBUS Prototyping

From moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney)
Newsgroups alt.sys.pdp11, comp.sys.dec, comp.os.vms
Subject Re: QBUS Prototyping
Date 2011-04-19 15:34 +0000
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Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> writes:

>One rumour has it that it was developed in order to extend some patent 
>or something.

I heard the same little birdie, and it certainly makes sense, to make the
instruction set unique.  Someone could probably find another processor or
processors that essentially implement each of the other PDP-11
instructions.  Kind of like deliberate errors added to copyrighted maps.

>Another would be that they were just crazy.

That certainly would have helped!

>I've not seen a single compiler use the subroutine linkage that 
>explicitly makes the MARK instruction meaningful, and besides. It is not 
>usable if you have split I/D space.

I won't claim there is one, esp. if it doesn't work with split I/D space.

>> (next question, which compiler(s) used it?)

>I have no idea.

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Re: QBUS Prototyping koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-04-18 07:56 -0500
  Re: QBUS Prototyping Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-04-18 08:07 -0700
    Re: QBUS Prototyping moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2011-04-18 17:26 +0000
      Re: QBUS Prototyping koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-04-18 12:53 -0500
      Re: QBUS Prototyping Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-04-18 20:35 -0700
        Re: QBUS Prototyping moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2011-04-19 15:34 +0000
          Re: QBUS Prototyping Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-04-19 09:47 -0700
    Re: QBUS Prototyping koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-04-18 12:49 -0500
      Re: QBUS Prototyping Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-04-18 20:36 -0700

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