Honeywell 316 Question

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Thu Feb 21 12:15:21 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.

Oh yeah, they've got the same sector-zero-relative addressing mode;
I mostly worked with the later 50-series instruction set, but I did
a little disassembly of some older code, and it was an enlightning
experience.

-dq
 
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