On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 6:46 AM, Mark Linimon <lini...@lonesome.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:21:03PM -0500, Kyle Owen wrote: > > I seem to have acquired a few boards from a decommissioned system. > > 74S00s, they were going for speed. > > The 2900s are the well-known bit-slice chips. > > All definitely the level of technology I cut my teeth on. > I was a bit surprised to see that it used 2901 with a date code of 1985 - the 2901 was introduced 10 years before. In the late 1970s, Norsk Data implemented the ND10 architecture with the 2901. It was thought that this would give a modest uplift over the previous generation, and the planned name was ND10S. It turned out to be so fast that Norsk Data gave it the name ND100 instead :-)
