Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id FAA04329 for pups-liszt; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 05:08:33 +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 celeste.INS.CWRU.Edu (root@celeste.INS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.8.214]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id FAA04319 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 05:08:00 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from mxs46@k2.scl.cwru.edu) Received: from k2.cwru.edu (k2.SCL.CWRU.Edu [129.22.32.50]) by celeste.INS.CWRU.Edu with SMTP (8.8.8+cwru/CWRU-3.4) id NAA27021; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:07:55 -0500 (EST) (from mxs46@k2.scl.cwru.edu for ) Received: from skybridge.scl.cwru.edu by k2.cwru.edu (8.6.12/SMI-SVR4) id NAA22879; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:11:37 -0500 Received: by skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA16912; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:20:43 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:20:43 -0500 From: mxs46@k2.scl.cwru.edu (Michael Sokolov) Message-Id: <199811231820.NAA16912@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu> To: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Subject: Re: What *was* the Tahoe? Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Precedence: bulk Dave Horsfall writes: > And, as I recall (I used to work for STC Australia who sold 'em) it > had the instruction set of a Vax [...] Aha! I always suspected that the Tahoe architecture was somehow related to VAXen, I just didn't know how. Now we all know... > [...] but backwards, if you know what I > mean... 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? > The CPU was five boards, something like integer card plus > FPU card plus priority arbitrator card etc. At least the FPU card was optional, since the Tahoe code in BSD has a emulator for it. Sincerely, Michael Sokolov Phone: 440-449-0299 (Home) 216-217-2579 (Cellular) ARPA Internet SMTP mail: mxs46@k2.scl.cwru.edu