Honeywell 316 Question

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Thu Feb 21 06:32:16 2002

> >I suppose "picked up" was a bit of an understatement. However I don't think
> >the reality of the fact that a Honeywell 316 is sitting in my sun room has
> >quite sunk in. Thank you for the advice. I will certainly follow it.
>
> Which brings up the point of what I'm wondering. Just how big is a
> Honeywell 316? What peripherals does it support, and what OS's? I'm only
> familiar with DPS-6, DPS-8, and DPS-8000 systems, and of those, even the
> DPS-6 isn't exactly small.

My understanding is that it ran a small single-user disk-based OS
and possibly a realtime OS... Bill Poduska and David Udin & Co.
worked with these a bit and based the architecture of the first
Prime Computers on the Honeywell 316. I always assumed that the
early Prime DOS and RTOS were made to resemble something they'd
used before (they weren't ready yet for their magnum opus).

-dq

p.s.: Didn't the 316 share basic architecture with the 516 & 716?
Received on Thu Feb 21 2002 - 06:32:16 GMT