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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:The Digital way of working
Moderator:QUARK::LIONELON
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5321
Total number of notes:139771

4482.0. "moving from the PDP to the VAX" by TAVIS::ERAN (Eran Gorev @ISO, DTN : 882-3402) Thu Mar 14 1996 12:21

    
    I'm looking for the originial papers documenting the decision and
    implementation processes Digital went through, in moving from the PDP
    architecture to the VAX.
    
    Any pointers and information are welcome.
    
    Thanks,
    Eran
    
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4482.1ATLANT::SCHMIDTSee http://atlant2.zko.dec.com/Thu Mar 14 1996 12:346
Eran:

  Gordon Bell's book ("Computer Engineering") is probably the
  best source for this.

                                   Atlant
4482.2original VAX-11 Arch HandbookTALLIS::GREENMANFri Mar 15 1996 07:5310
    You might also look in the first VAX-11 Architecture Handbook of
    around 1978 or so. This was when it was free and considered
    technical marketing literature. It will show you how much of the
    PDP-11 architecture was included in the VAX architecture through
    Compatibility Mode. Not to mention the name of the book :-)
    
    I assume when you say PDP you mean PDP-11. That's important. There
    were a number of PDP architectures.
    
    /Charlie