On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 9:19 AM Lee Courtney via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote:
> "Was Lee Courtney involved with the APL 3000 project?" - unfortunately no I > was not. Just RTE on the 1000 and later MPE on PA-RISC. All I know is that > there was microcode support required to run APL on Series II/III > micro-architecture machines. That microcode was not moved to later > micro-architectures (Series 3x, 4x, 6x, 7x) so there was no APL available. > I don't think HP had enough customers using APL to justify the effort. Too > bad because was an innovative APL. > Why was microcode support required to make APL work? What did it enable that couldn't be done in other ways? Thanks! Warner > Stan Sieler et al are trying to get APL\3000 up and running on an emulated > 3000 via SIMH. He's CC'd here and can comment. > > Al - it would be a Very Good Thing to get those APL ROMS dumped when > possible. > > Lee Courtney > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 6:04 AM Al Kossow via cctalk < > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > On 9/16/20 5:30 AM, Rodney Brown via cctalk wrote: > > > > > It's possible that one of the SYSWCS64 files may match the assembly > > listing on bitsavers, but that listing could allow guessing the > > > architecture, assuming horizontal microcode and matching against the HP > > 3000 stack machine instruction set it implements. > > > > > > > I suspect the listing is for this machine > > https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102691253 > > > > I remember looking at the microcode boards in it at one point, and it had > > APL roms > > Attempting to dump them isn't possible right now. > > > > Was Lee Courtney involved with the APL 3000 project? > > > > > > > > -- > Lee Courtney > +1-650-704-3934 cell >
