On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:49:27 +0100 Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2016-02-16 17:43, [email protected] wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:40:09 -0500 > > William Pechter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Actually, one of DEC's biggest mistakes was not OEMing the uVax > >> chips... They would've killed the 68k had they had the uVaxII chipset > >> available for early workstations. > > > > I'm not so sure about that. The 68k was used in an awful lot of devices > > from handhelds (Palm) to TI calculators and a whole lot more than > > workstations. Could handheld devices in that day run microVax chips? > > For a lot of embedded, low power stuff, it would have made more sense to > use PDP-11s. But DEC had those chips as well, and was somewhat unwilling > in that market too. Imagine if they had tries to really push for getting > PDP-11s out there in all kind of devices, and made one or two more > implementations to shrink and reduce power... That could have been nice. You're just saying that because you want to run an RSX-based smartphone ;-) In all seriousness with today's FPGAs and microcontrollers you can probably make just about any battery-powered device you could think up. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
