9 Jun
2025
9 Jun
'25
11:49 p.m.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Firefly
=>
https://dn790000.ca.archive.org/0/items/bitsavers_dectechrep_1102275/SRC-RR…
(One of the papers Wikipedia references talks about M68010 CPUs, maybe
early cache work was done with them.)
- Aron
On 6/9/25 19:37, Lawrence Stewart wrote:
I’ve not heard of anyone having a complete Firefly. Around 70 were
build I think.
The Firefox was build as a product in the late ’80s by Workstation
Systems Engineering, which was down the street from us at the Systems
Research Center in Palo Alto. It was maybe inspired by Firefly but
had an entirely different design.
I see this topic came up once before here, in 2019:
https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2019-August/018389.html
On Jun 9, 2025, at 15:16, Henry Bent
<henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 at 14:59, Lawrence Stewart <stewart(a)serissa.com>
wrote:
My rare items are only Unix-adjacent. I have a Digital “Beta”
prototype, the first Alpha machine in a PC form factor. It runs
OSF-1, or would if I can find the SIMMs I borrowed from it :). I
have some boards for a Digital Firefly, a research vax
multiprocessor that ran a Modula-2 based OS that would run Ultrix
binaries.
That's incredibly cool. Do you know if any of the Firefly machines
survived? I saw a VAXstation 3540 for sale at some point recently
but it was well out of my price range; I hope it found a good home.
-Henry