Re: pascal microengine...

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From: Nick Rothwell
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1988 10:46

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In article <16946@gatech.edu> ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
>This may be a bit of ancient history...but does anyone remeber the 
>Pascal Microengine?  Who made it and what processor did it use?
>I used one back in the Dark Ages ( c. 1980 ).

I've never used one (or even seen one), but I've got the book! The
machine was built by Western Digital. I think the processor was
custom-designed, but I can't remember. At home I'm running the same
UCSD p-System on a similar machine, a Terak 8510, although this is a
bona fide LSI-11.

-- 
Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
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From: csnjr@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: pascal microengine...
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Date: 21 Jan 88 10:46:27 GMT
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Keywords: Pascal, microengine
Summary: Western Digital

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