Philips machines (and AMT DAPs)

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_odin.phy.bris.ac.uk>
Date: Sun Oct 12 15:23:51 1997

I wonder if anyone on this list knows anything about the minicomputers
that Philips were making in the 1970's? They seem to be somewhat uncommon,
even though a lot of different models seem to have been produced.

Two that I know about are the P850 (a 16 bit machine, with a maximum of 2K
words of Core and 9 I/O slots, all built from discrete TTL), and the P851
(a later machine using LSI chips (SPALU was the ALU/register slice, PLANET
was the control sequencer, taking a maximum of 32K words of MOS RAM). The
P852, P853, P854, P855 (== P850 with more instructions), P856, P857 and
P860 are all mentioned in passing in the manuals, but I have no real
details


The other thing I am trying to find information on is the AMT DAP
(Distributed Array Processor), which seems to have been a square array of
custom single-bit processors. It's a little too recent for this list (it
seems to have come out about 9 years ago), but as it's not a PC, I doubt
anyone will mind discussing it here.

-tony
Received on Sun Oct 12 1997 - 15:23:51 BST