[Simh] HIstory.

[Clem cole]

I used to program Vax serial #1 at CMU in the mid 1970s. I moved to Portland upon graduation in the late 1979s and at Tektronix I also programmed (and may have in kit/o/crap in the basement) the pre-68k that was not yet numbers (I might even have notes like what worked and what did not. I remember their were early sequences that would fry the processor and I was always scared I was going execute them accidentally ) That processor was delivered 3-4 years post Vax  [we used it to build Magnolia - Tek was one of the 10 test sites that had them and like Moto used an 11:70 state as the development cause vaxen cost tool much. 😉

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> On Jul 10, 2015, at 11:44 PM, Jon Elson <jonelson126 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com>
> To: SIMH <simh at trailing-edge.com> Subject: Re: [Simh] VAX vectors
> Message-ID: <CAC20D2MR_YovEFCR-rzbRhcvExdzwGpoQHOccT3t4KC=SFTjCw at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
>>> >VAX was pretty much the last CISC-y architecture that sold in any
>>> >sizable units
>>> >
>> ​68K family was after the VAX (  VAX in mid-70s vs. 68K is late 70s).
> The fiirst VAX sold in late 1977, and was well in swing with both "mainframe" and desktop class machines until the early 1990's, when the DEC Alpha came out.
> 
> Jon
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