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> At 06:16 AM 5/3/04 +0100, you wrote:
> >> Firstly, are the 9825 and 9845 processors the same part?
> >
> >I have a 9845 which is on the 'to be investigated' list. I will hopefully
> >be pulling it to bits (non-destructively) soon. I've not done much on it
> >yet, but from what I remember there are 2 processors in there.
>
>
> There are unless you got the optional Hi-Performace bit-slice CPU. One
I think I may well have that.
On the left of my machine is a board with one of the HP hybrids on it. I
assume it's a proccessor -- it looks very like the thing in my 9825 and
9831.
On the right there's a set of 3 boards, only one of which goes into the
main backplane. There's a little backplane on top that interconnects
these 3 boards. One of them contains 4 2901 chips (4 bit bit-slice ALUs).
Anohter contains what look to be microcode PROMs.
I assume the former is the PPU, the latter the LPU. I would certainly
describe my LPU as a bit-slice board -- do you know if the standard LPU
was an HP hybrid chip, a board of bit-slice chips or what?
I know little of the history of my 9845, other than when I got it it came
with 2 8" drives, a few 16 bit parallel interfaces, 3 HPIB interfaces
(!) a real time clock at least one RS232 interface and the rather
hard-to-find 9878 expansion chassis.
> For more information about the HP 9825 go look at my HP 9825 page at
> <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/hp9825.htm>. See
I know the 9825 hardware fairly well...
-tony
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