On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
> > > > I believe the first microcomputer to run Unix was the DEC PDP11/03 and
> > > > 11/23 at At&T's Bell Labs (see the papers on mini-unix).
> > >
> > > Microprocessor-based computer? Read the question again.
>
> By some definitions, the LSI11/03 and 11/23 are microprocessors (as is
> the 11/73 which came later). The definition I use (and we've discussed
> this before...) is 'A microprocessor is a processor on a single chip, or
> a chipset which is only used to make that processor'. And that includes
> the 11/03 and 11/23
Yep. I wasn't thinking and didn't remember a previous discussion I'd had
with Allison about the fact that the 11/03 and 11/23 are
"microprocessors".
> If you won't allow these as microprocessors then you certainly have to
> exclude the F14 processor as well...
Not necessarily. Again, the SLF chip COULD function without the other
chips in the set.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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