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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 18:07:21 -0700
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 09:15:02 -0700, John Ames wrote:
> 
>> I've always found the 9900 concept interesting, although its core
>> assumption about memory speed doesn't really hold up today; much of the
>> architecture was eventually reincarnated in TI's MSP430 series micro-
>> controllers, but they ditched the memory-resident register file. But for
>> the time, context-switching certainly didn't get any faster than that;
>> only three actual registers to save, but you still got a comfortably
>> PDP-11ish environment from the programmer's perspective.
> 
> I worked on one project that used the 9900. Its claim to fame is TI had a 
> rad hard version.
> 

Skidmore College had one.

-- 
Pete