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Re: XKL (PDP10) Site Announcement

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"Stephen M. Jones" <smj@twenex.org> writes:
> I have invested in a TOAD-2 machine running the PDP-10 architecture,
> and would like to make its capabilities available.  The TOAD is
> manufactured by XKL LLC, and is a completely new hardware
> implementation of Digital's 36-bit PDP-10 architecture, not an
> emulator running on another platform.  This machine I've purchased
> will be a repository for PDP10 public domain software...

This is cool, thanks for doing it, and I didn't realize that the Toad-2
existed.  Finding much info about it is non-trivial.  Is it really built
around an ASIC?  Or maybe an FPGA, that would be easier?  When was it
built?  Was there really much benefit by then of building a hardware
implementation instead of simply running an emulator?  I've been
slightly interested in fooling with emulated PDP-10's for various
purposes, but have never understood the attraction of hardware
reimplementations once emulators became a lot faster than historical
10's.

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XKL (PDP10) Site Announcement "Stephen M. Jones" <smj@twenex.org> - 2021-09-24 04:55 +0000
  Re: XKL (PDP10) Site Announcement Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2021-09-25 01:17 -0700
    Re: XKL (PDP10) Site Announcement Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2021-09-25 20:54 -0400
      Re: XKL (PDP10) Site Announcement Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2021-09-29 00:48 -0700
  Re: XKL (PDP10) Site Announcement drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2021-09-26 10:00 -0500
  Re: XKL (PDP10) Site Announcement Charles Richmond <codescott@aquaporin4.com> - 2021-10-06 15:10 -0500

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