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Started by Donald M. Craig
Sat, 25 Oct 1986 01:17
TOPS-10 History
Author: Donald M. Craig
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1986 01:17
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1986 01:17
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I don't know about a whole book on the PDP-10/TOPS-10, but it sounds like the article being referenced is: The Evolution of the DECsystem-10 C. Gordon Bell, Alan Kotok, Thomas N. Hastings, and Richard Hill pp 489-518 of Computer Engineering - A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara Digital Press, 1978, JB066-A, ISBN 0-932376-00-2 An earlier version of this paper appeared in Communications of the ACM, January 1978. Alan Kotok was the designer of the KI10 processor (and maybe more), and Tom Hastings was the operating system manager in the 4S72 - 5 series days. My copy of the book has a somewhat musty odour, and it has such articles as "A New Architecture for Minicomputers - The DEC PDP-11". As a source of 'Ancient' DEC computer history it is peerless, and resolves some of the revisionism we have been hearing lately in this newsgroup. "On the basis of previous experience, we decided that the advantages of having one standard flip-flop were worth some complications in TX-2 circuitry", from "Transistor Circuitry in the Lincoln TX-2" by Kenneth H. Olson, a former DEC designer. Don Craig Tektronix Television Systems Engineering dmc@videovax.tek.com
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