Re: What *was* the Tahoe? - TUHS

24 Nov 1998

   Dave Horsfall &lt;dave(a)fgh.geac.com.au&gt; writes:
...
  And, as I recall (I used to work for STC Australia who
sold 'em) it
 had the instruction set of a Vax [...]    
   Aha! I always suspected that the Tahoe architecture was somehow related
to VAXen, I just didn't know how. Now we all know...

...
  [...] but backwards, if you know what I
 mean...    
   I have noticed that the Tahoe architecture is big-endian (I use this to
easily tell between VAX and Tahoe binaries and filesystem dumps). Is this
what you mean? Or is there any more backwardness?

...
  The CPU was five boards, something like integer card
plus
 FPU card plus priority arbitrator card etc.    
   At least the FPU card was optional, since the Tahoe code in BSD has a
emulator for it.

   Sincerely,
   Michael Sokolov
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