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Re: pascal microengine...

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From: Bill Gunshannon
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1988 16:00
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In article <159@anumb.UUCP>, eao@anumb.UUCP (e.a.olson) writes:
> 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 ).
> 
> it was made by western digital;
> the same chipset they licensed to dec for the lsi-11
> 5 chips as i recall, 2 used for microcode
> 

Does that mean I can convert my LSI-11 to a Pascal Microengine??

Where does one get the necessary chips to do this???

I have a couple of TERAK 8510's running UCSD Pascal and it would sure be
nice to cut out the middle man. :-)

bill gunshannon


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From: bill@trotter.usma.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: pascal microengine...
Message-ID: <1167@trotter.usma.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 88 16:00:53 GMT
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