microcoding a PC into a PDP-11 (was: RE: Classic Computers vs. Classic Computing)

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Mon Sep 17 10:02:12 2001

>Cool idea -- flash on a DIMM. Has anyone ever heard of such a beast?

        The Apple Set Top box uses flash SIMM/DIMMs for it's boot
code. At least the one I have does. It's a 68pin SIMM with 8 Intel
E28F020 flash memory chips (256k x 8).

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