<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>Like a RSTS watch?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From lists@openmailbox.org <br>Date: 02/16/2016 9:54 AM (GMT-07:00) <br>To simh@trailing-edge.com <br>Subject Re: [Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 145, Issue 52 <br> <br><br>On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:49:27 +0100<br>Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> wrote:<br><br>> On 2016-02-16 17:43, lists@openmailbox.org wrote:<br>> > On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:40:09 -0500<br>> > William Pechter <pechter@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> ><br>> >> Actually, one of DEC's biggest mistakes was not OEMing the uVax<br>> >> chips... They would've killed the 68k had they had the uVaxII chipset<br>> >> available for early workstations.<br>> ><br>> > I'm not so sure about that. The 68k was used in an awful lot of devices<br>> > from handhelds (Palm) to TI calculators and a whole lot more than<br>> > workstations. Could handheld devices in that day run microVax chips?<br>> <br>> For a lot of embedded, low power stuff, it would have made more sense to <br>> use PDP-11s. But DEC had those chips as well, and was somewhat unwilling <br>> in that market too. Imagine if they had tries to really push for getting <br>> PDP-11s out there in all kind of devices, and made one or two more <br>> implementations to shrink and reduce power... That could have been nice.<br><br>You're just saying that because you want to run an RSX-based smartphone ;-)<br><br>In all seriousness with today's FPGAs and microcontrollers you can probably<br>make just about any battery-powered device you could think up.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Simh mailing list<br>Simh@trailing-edge.com<br>http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh</body>