Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id SAA02069 for pups-liszt; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 18:19:19 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au) X-Authentication-Warning: minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au: major set sender to owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au using -f Received: from caveman.geac.com.au (caveman.geac.com.au [203.30.73.2]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA02064 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 18:19:11 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@fgh.geac.com.au) Received: (qmail 4403 invoked from network); 23 Nov 1998 06:22:48 -0000 Received: from brane.geac.com.au (202.6.67.115) by caveman.geac.com.au with SMTP; 23 Nov 1998 06:22:48 -0000 Received: from fgh.geac.com.au by brane.geac.com.au with smtp\n (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0zhqEJ-00002RC; Mon, 23 Nov 98 18:16 AEDT Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by fgh.geac.com.au (SMI-8.X/SVR4) with ESMTP id SAA05724 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 18:16:50 +1100 Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 18:16:50 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall X-Sender: dave@fgh cc: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Subject: Re: What *was* the Tahoe? In-Reply-To: <199811230605.WAA03948@flamingo.McKusick.COM> Message-ID: X-No-Archive: Yes X-Witty-Saying: "Tesseract - Enter at own risk" X-Disclaimer: "Me, speak for us?" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Precedence: bulk On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Kirk McKusick wrote: > Tahoe was the internal "code" name that Computer Consoles Inc used > for their Power 6/32 processor. Many of their early changes to BSD > were labelled: > #ifdef tahoe > to identify the 6/32 specific code. So, when we did the port we > just called it Tahoe because its prime purpose was to add support > for the CCI 6/32 machine. And, as I recall (I used to work for STC Australia who sold 'em) it had the instruction set of a Vax, but backwards, if you know what I mean... The CPU was five boards, something like integer card plus FPU card plus priority arbitrator card etc. -- Dave Horsfall VK2KFU dave@geac.com.au Ph: +61 2 9978-7493 Fx: +61 2 9978-7422 Geac Computers P/L (FGH Division) 2/57 Christie St, St Leonards 2065, Australia