8 Jul
2024
8 Jul
'24
5:28 a.m.
Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> writes:
On Fri, 5 Jul 2024, Peter Yardley wrote:
I believe AOS for the Nova... and AOS/VS for the Supernova, aka the MV
series. I got very good at dealing with AOS/VS at a university I
attended. The later MV/xxxxx Supernova boxes could run Unix, I
believe... (at least I remember the university running Unix on a MV
series after I left).
--
Brad Spencer - brad(a)anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org
The DG Nova had a pretty nice architecture. 2
accumulators, 2 index
registers, program counter, status register. No stack register tho.
There was a micro processor version by Fairchild.
The story behind it is interesting too. The designer at DEC (Ed de
Castro) tried to promote it, Ken Olson didn't like it, so he left to form
Data General and created the DG Nova.
OK, not a Unix box...
-- Dave