[Simh] the cult of cutler

[Rich Alderson]

> From: "Norman Lastovica" <norman.lastovica at oracle.com>
> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 17:42:52 -0600

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com
>> On Behalf Of dave porter
>> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 5:23 PM

>>> From: "Norman Lastovica" <norman.lastovica at oracle.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Simh] VUPs?

>>> Quick Culter story as he told it (at least the parts that I remember)...

>>> The 11/70 added support for a whole lot more memory with additional
>>> physical address bits (virtual memory remained the same size obviously)
>>> along with some other features.

>> I'd heard the same story as far as the '11/70 support in a weekend' part.
>> However, the reason given, in the version I heard, was that the 11/70 and
>> IAS were supposed to be announced together, IAS was late, and getting 11M up
>> on the 11/70 (and subsequent annoucement of same) was a political attack on
>> IAS.

>> Mind you, I worked in Reading at the time and heard the story from someone
>> in the IAS team, so it's not like my sources were impartial.

> I accept your story as well :-)  may well have been IAS.

I'd just like to point out that IAS is a renamed late release of RSX-11D, so
the story has the same truth value whichever name is used.

                                                                Rich