> On Jul 9, 2020, at 10:40 PM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2020-07-10 04:37, Don North wrote:
>> On 7/9/2020 6:25 PM, Bob Supnik wrote:
>>> Yes, the PDP11 Architecture Handbook was a post-facto effort. The J11 was
>>> finished; DEC did not intend to do another PDP11 processor. (I wrote a spec
>>> for one, primarily as an exercise in trying to do a different microcode
>>> structure than the PLA/ROM of the LSI11/F11/J11, but I lost it.) The only
>>> formal part of the PDP11 architecture was the Commercial Instruction Set
>>> extension, DEC STD 168, which was only implemented by the F11 and the 11/44.
>> AND the PDP-11/74 CIS option, I might add. Fully implemented, never sold.
>
> Not to mention that the 11/74 in itself was fully implemented, but never
> sold... Not even the 11/70MP...
Were there actually two prototypes called 11/74? I know the MP machine, which
the RSX-11 development team owned. And in Merrimack (home of RSTS and some of
the compiler teams) there was an 11/74 with CIS, for COBOL. But that one
wasn't an MP machine. Perhaps a coincidence, I don't have a real memory either
way.
paul
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