bit addressing, alignment, bus errors, and VM (was Re: PDP-10 arch question)

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Mon Nov 2 08:50:32 1998

> Seymour Cray had more than a hand in the design of the 6000 series.
> Although he worked with some fine engineers (Thornton (sp?) is one name I
> remember), I believe that the instruction set, architecture and packaging
> scheme all primarily came from Seymour.

Apparently Seymour did some of the bits of the 6600, like the I/O.
The scoreboard and other innovations were Thornton's. Somewhere
there is a thread about that on comp.sys.super, but I can not find it now.

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Mon Nov 02 1998 - 08:50:32 GMT