> > Any DG AOS/VS people out there?
>
>I helped evaluate the Eclipse around 1980 when our local Indiana Unversity
>campus was trying to break free from our total dependence on the centralized
>IU computing factilities in Bloomington and Indianapolis. It had a lot to
>offer, but we like Pr1me better, and went that route.
>
>IIRC, the Eclipse architecture was an evolution of the DG Nova architecture.
>It's development is the subject of Tracy Kidder's "Soul of a New Machine",
>a book I'd highly recommend reading.
I did a bit of work with an Eclipse C300 and an Eclipse S250 many years
ago. Yes, the Eclipse is a development of the Nova; it looked to me like
they had redefined useless/invalid Nova instructions to come up with the
new Eclipse instructions. The MV series is the extension of the Eclipse
to 32 bits. I don't know a lot about the MV (the group I was involved with
decided to stick with the VAX, so I never got any technical info on the
MV).
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Roger Ivie
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Received on Tue Sep 05 2000 - 10:26:33 BST