On 2016-02-16 17:43, li...@openmailbox.org wrote:
On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:40:09 -0500
William Pechter <pech...@gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, one of DEC's biggest mistakes was not OEMing the uVax chips...
They would've killed the 68k had they had the uVaxII chipset
available for early workstations.
I'm not so sure about that. The 68k was used in an awful lot of devices
from handhelds (Palm) to TI calculators and a whole lot more than
workstations. Could handheld devices in that day run microVax chips?
For a lot of embedded, low power stuff, it would have made more sense to
use PDP-11s. But DEC had those chips as well, and was somewhat unwilling
in that market too. Imagine if they had tries to really push for getting
PDP-11s out there in all kind of devices, and made one or two more
implementations to shrink and reduce power... That could have been nice.
Johnny
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