Re: Mass produced custom chips

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From: Wm E Davidsen Jr
Date: Mon, 06 May 1991 14:20

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In article <1835@madnix.UUCP> zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean) writes:

|                            Perhaps the most likely motivation for
| a small-run custom CPU would be for nostalgic reasons (ie, PDP-10
| on-a-chip). That way, you don't need a rational reason to do it.

  I think there would be a nice market for someone building a
DPS-whatever (MULTICS engine) even today. MULTICS could become the PC
operating system of choice for the next millenium.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
        "Most of the VAX instructions are in microcode,
         but halt and no-op are in hardware for efficiency"

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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
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Subject: Re: Mass produced custom chips
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Date: 6 May 91 14:20:19 GMT
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