VAX (Was: Cromemco landmarks)

From: Carlini, Antonio <Antonio.Carlini_at_riverstonenet.com>
Date: Mon Nov 12 14:07:25 2001

> Allison wrote:
>
>The LPSxx printers had the FPU, at least the LPS40, 20 and 32
>as I was involved with those. The Turbo20 and lps32 had the Cvax
>which had FPU.

        Re-reading my earlier message, I think I had the
        wrong empasis. I meant "Almost certainly *some*
        kit shipped without an FPU" not that all non-computer
        kit shipped without an FPU.

        For example, the DECnis started out using
        culled SOCs: no guarantee that the FPU worked
        and no guarantee that more than (I think)
        five of the cache banks were good. This was
        a way of using up SOCs that were no good for
        computer systems.

        I think I remember reading in one of the
        DTJs that some of the VT1xxx and/or
        VTX systems had no FPU.

        Antonio
        arcarlini_at_iee.org
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