[Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 145, Issue 52

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-02-16 17:43, lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:40:09 -0500
> William Pechter <pechter at gmail.com> 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.

	Johnny