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Date:      Thu, 2 Feb 2006 15:12:09 -0800 (PST)
From:      Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
To:        mj@feral.com
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, dfr@nlsystems.com, linimon@lonesome.com, wb@freebie.xs4all.nl, kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU, kensmith@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile
Message-ID:  <200602022312.k12NC91T034187@gw.catspoiler.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060202143801.A99168@ns1.feral.com>

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On  2 Feb, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Don Lewis wrote:
> 
>> On  2 Feb, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>>
>>> Better:  I still *have* an LSI-11/23 with 8" SMD.  And a 11/73 with SCSI.
>>
>> Cool!  I did some of the processor design and debug work on the J11
>> processor used in the 11/73.
> 
> Hey- you must have known Steve Teichert then.

Hmn, the name doesn't ring a bell.  I was working at Harris
Semiconductor at the time and spent about a year working on the
processor data chip implementation.  I only dealt with a handful of the
DEC engineers.

> In any case, do you remember enough about the J11 chip to answer 
> questions about some of the early revs?

Oh, it's only been 23 years or so ...

Most of the revisions that we did on the data chip were to get the speed
up to an acceptable level, though we did run into some data integrity
problems.  I don't know anything about the microcode history.

The only non-wetware info I have from that time is a preliminary copy of
the "DCJ11 Microprocessor User's Guide".




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