The MESA processor architecture

From: Al Kossow <aek_at_spies.com>
Date: Thu May 24 17:06:53 2001

"Yes, all of the Xerox Workstations from the Alto on use a Mesa processor,
A little like a Nova but with Writable Control Store (WCS)."

Completely false.

One of the Alto instruction sets was an extended Nova. The MESA machine
is more like an HP3000 than a Nova. It is defined in the MESA "Princeops"
manual. Alan Freier had this on line at one point, not sure if anyone
saved a copy.
Received on Thu May 24 2001 - 17:06:53 BST