I don't know if this comment represents scope creep or not, but I recently
browsed the
VAX MP Technical Overview:
http://www.oboguev.net/vax_mp/VAX%20MP%20Technical%20Overview.pdf
and it has an eye-opening dissection of the pitfalls associated with threaded
emulation
when the memory consistency
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:56:07 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Cory Smelosky
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2015, Rich Alderson wrote:
>> I can't speak to ITS at the moment, those bits are buried deep under more
>> current projects, of which the most relevant is WAITS on a 1095 here at the
>> museum.
> I am very inte
> From: Phil Budne
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:12:57 -0400
> Rich Alderson wrote:
>>> On 27-Apr-15 14:56, Cory Smelosky wrote:
...This is getting absurd. Just how many stacks exist?!
>>> BBN had a TENEX stack. Not sure if DEC's started with it.
I think that line was Tim Litt, in response
On Wed, 29 Apr 2015, Rich Alderson wrote:
I suppose you're thinking of the Data Disc terminals, which connected to the
system through a giant disk (a Librascope, if I have my facts straight). The
system wrote on the disk, the terminal displayed that content, keyboard wrote
on the disk, system
