On 2016-02-16 17:54, [email protected] wrote:
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 ;-)
Of course, that would be nice. :-)
In all seriousness with today's FPGAs and microcontrollers you can probably
make just about any battery-powered device you could think up.
Today, yes. But it we roll back to the 80s, then the 68000 was the
alternative, and I really think that the PDP-11 could have competed very
well with that CPU.
Johnny
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