Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA06960 for pups-liszt; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:50:10 +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 OAA06955 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:50:01 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@fgh.geac.com.au) Received: (qmail 31771 invoked from network); 24 Nov 1998 02:53:55 -0000 Received: from brane.geac.com.au (202.6.67.115) by caveman.geac.com.au with SMTP; 24 Nov 1998 02:53:55 -0000 Received: from fgh.geac.com.au by brane.geac.com.au with smtp\n (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0zi9RP-0003pFC; Tue, 24 Nov 98 14:47 AEDT Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by fgh.geac.com.au (SMI-8.X/SVR4) with ESMTP id OAA06899 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:47:42 +1100 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:47:41 +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: <199811231820.NAA16912@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu> 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 Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Michael Sokolov wrote: > I have noticed that the Tahoe architecture is big-endian (I use this to > easily tell between VAX and Tahoe binaries and filesystem dumps). Is this > what you mean? Or is there any more backwardness? It's basically a big-endian Vax. When disassembling code, I never knew whether to wear my Vax hat or my Motorola hat :-) I believe that the Harris 7, the ICL Clan etc were just badge-engineered. Nice machine, and no relation to the CCI 5/32 and the 5/32X (680x0) other than the manufacturer. > At least the FPU card was optional, since the Tahoe code in BSD has a > emulator for it. And the Ethernet card cost AU$10,000 (ca. 80s). It had a STUPID ribbon cable connector to the D15 socket; misalign it by one pin (easy to do), since there was no key; you had to count 13 pins down) and you blew the card. I did, once... -- 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