Any own an 11/725...?

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Sun Oct 23 20:25:20 CDT 2005


Tony Duell wrote:
>>Tony Duell wrote:
>>
>>>Hmmmm....  I find the 11/730 to be a very interesting design. It's almost 
>>>all simple PALs.
>>
>>Isn't the 8700/8800 mostly bitslice chips?
> 
> 
> You might well be right. Are the prints available anywhere?

I don't know.  I've never looked.  I'll see if I can find them.

> The 11/730, of course, is mostly PALs (as I said) with some RAM as a 
> control store, 8 off 2901s as the ALU, and an 8085 (I think) to load the 
> control store, etc. One day I am going to look into modifying the 
> microcode of that machine...

To what end?  Increased performance?

Peace...  Sridhar



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