Subject: Re: NuVAX revisited
To: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
From: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@umbar.vaxpower.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/26/2001 19:53:35
ok, yeah.. whoops! sorry..
hmm.. 730..
but the 730 basically sucked! lets stick with the 750 anyway!
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On June 26, Brian Chase wrote:
> > What about the 11/730? The 11/750 used 2901 bitslice processors which
> > might pose a challenge (???) I believe the 11/730 is pure TTL. It's
> > slow, and simpler than the 11/780 (I don't think it had provisions for the
> > PDP-11 compatibility mode). It's sort of a no-go if no one has any print
> > sets for it, but I believe it'd be easier to implement in VHDL than an
> > 11/780.
>
> Sorry Brian...the 11/730 is 2901-based, not TTL, and the 11/750 uses
> custom ASICs, not 2901s. The 11/780 is TTL.
>
> -Dave McGuire
>