AMD bit-slice machines

[Bob Shannon]

Yes, these are clearly relatives!

I worked on a combat air traffic control system, run by a 4118.

It was a single CPU 18-bit machine, but with dedicated coprocessors
for radar video processing and a vector display system for radar
consoles.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Loewen" <mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us>
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Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: AMD bit-slice machines


> On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Bob Shannon wrote:
>
>> Any relation to the HP4118?
>>
>> I worked on 4118's in the USAF, but have never found any
>> into on them on-line.
>
>    Possibly.  I recall seeing references to an older, 3118 machine.  The 
> 5118 is a dual processor, real-time computer, and was the central 
> processor in the JSS air defense system, connected to two HMP-1116 
> minicomputers which handled radar inputs, console displays, printer output 
> and hard disk storage, and a 3rd 1116 which handles the color status 
> monitor.  The whole thing connects to a redundant system through one of 
> the 1116s.  The 5118 had a wire wrapped backplane.
>
>    There's an article that mentions the 3118, 4118 and 5118:
>
> http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=406&gTable=mtgpaper&gID=67515
>
>
> Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
> Old Technology http://ripsaw.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
>