Honeywell 316 Question

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Thu Feb 21 10:27:24 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Quebbeman [mailto:dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com]

> 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).

According to what I've read in preparation for picking one up,
later Prime systems also have the instruction set(s) for these
in the core.

Chris


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