On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 12:47 am, Eric Smith wrote:
> Antonio Carlini wrote:
> > This I find surprising since, like PLUTO, the DS500 was PDP-11 based
> > ans the DS100 and DS200 (and the 300 & too AFAIK) were 68000-based
>
> "Fred N. van Kempen" <waltje_at_pdp11.nl> wrote:
> > The DS200 sure is PDP-11 based. Dunno 'bout the 100, since I dont
> > have that one.
>
> Just had a DS200 open a few months ago, and there was a 68000 in it,
> with no PDP-11 of any sort (not even a T11). Also, if you look at
> the contents of the ROMs or the MOP download code, they are full of
> 68K code. For instance, there are lots of hex 4E75 words, which is a
> 68000 RTS instruction. Shows up as "Nu" in ASCII, or "uN" if your byte
> order is different.
I'll confirm this, both the ds200 and the ds300 have 68k's in 'em...
alex/melt
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Received on Fri Sep 19 2003 - 08:52:01 BST