28 Oct
2014
28 Oct
'14
8:03 p.m.
That SPF shows a date of 1987. Masscomp was '83 for the FP and 84 for the
APU and I know we could not get them - but then again KO was mad at us. At
that point we had more of the 780 HW guys then DEC did, plus a bunch of
ex-VMS and ex-LDP folks. The nasty-gram letter from Ken was framed and
hung out the office of one of the VPs (I wonder if Palmer of one of the
other Masscomp pack rats still has a picture of it).
I know we tried to get it for our Vax, and it was a clear - no way.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Ronald Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
On Oct 28, 2014, at 2:22 PM, Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
BTW: the 780 & 750 had ustore but it was not user documented and the tools
were internal. Paul Guilbo wrote much of both and later would write the
uCode for the Masscomp FPU and APU. Paul was bitching about the great
tool(s) they had had at DEC, so one weekend two of us on the SW team got
sick of his bitching a couple of us hacked up a uCode assembler in the same
key in Yacc/lex/C (not BLISS ;-).
Apparently they were at least advertised as available for the 780.
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/info/SP2509/SP2509PF.PDF