Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3156 mails)

[Hans Witvliet <hwit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 14:28 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Hans Witvliet wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 12:59 -0500, James Knott wrote:
> > > The Data General Eclipse line had a feature called "Writable Control
> > > Store", which could be used to add custom instructions to the CPU.  The
> > > VAX 11/780 had it's microcode loaded from floppy at boot, but I don't
> > > recall if it was changeable in the same manner as the Eclipse WCS.
> >
> > Floppy?
> > It was a real huge 8" flop ... (still have them here)
>
> Holding all of about 50k or so?
>
> I remember seeing some of those in an office supply store
> in Hafir-Al-Batin, Saudi Arabia back in 1992.
>
> > hw

No!  A (for that time) decent 2MB (rediculous these days)
I used it on flex & uniflex OS on my 6809.
Still beautiful DISC cpu (decent instruction set computer ;)
All orthoginal instructions on one A4 page.
Still regret it that Intel won that battle.

hw
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