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

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System
Date	2024-10-03 01:46 +0000
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On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 18:07:21 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
> Skidmore College had one.

Figures...  I went to RPI years before the 9900 was even a dream. Let's 
just say the girls from Skidmore, Vassar, and Bennington weren't the most 
approachable for nerdy engineers. I hadn't thought about Skidmore in 
decades.

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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
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      Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2024-10-02 09:49 -0700
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