Aaron Kulkis wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Aaron Kulkis wrote:
I'm a computer systems engineer, I've been programming since 1980, I've used and programmed on more operating systems than I can remember... what in the hell is a "micro pause" because I have never seen that term used before...ever...for anything.
I also have no idea what a "micro pause" is. The only thing that comes to mind, was that on some mini-computers, such as the Data General Eclipse, you could microstep through the microcode. There was a pause in there, but I don't think that's what he had in mind.
Wow... DG... Haven't heard mention of them in a LONG time.
I went to Purdue...we had some VAX-11/780's that were "homemade" dual-VAX machines (George Goble's pioneering work on dual CPU UNIX)...and then some Goulds (Powernode 9080's, and then NP-1's), and in electrical engineering, ONE Data General... but it was running System V wherease everything else was running 4.2/4.3 BSD and since it wasn't networked, either, nobody used it.
But I hear they were nice machines to program on.
I wasn't a programmer. I was a technician, who looked after the hardware. However, even at that, I noticed a lot of nice things about the Eclipse (and even Nova) instruction set. I also worked on the VAX 11/780, some PDP-11's, a PDP-8i, a few different PR1ME models and some Collins 8500C computers. There was even one, count 'em one XT clone. ;-) My company ran VAX/VMS on the 11/780, which I used when doing my Fortran homework. One thing I liked about the VAX was the disk pack drives could be arranged in array, shared by several computers, whereas with Data General, only two computers could share a drive. This was back in the days before ethernet, though the Collins computers had a network based on time slots over a triaxial cable. My first ethernet experience was with those Vaxes, though it was coming in, just as I was leaving that position. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org