VLSI of classic architectures (was Re: 11/70 board set on e-bay. . .)

Pete Turnbull pete at dunnington.plus.com
Tue Jan 15 14:14:19 CST 2008


On 15/01/2008 17:37, James A. Markevitch wrote:
>> Chuckles at the typo.Is the PDP-8 the only classic architecure from the mid
>> 1960's that was made with VLSI components.
> 
> IBM 360 (still being made today)

Is it?

> Data General Nova (MicroNOVA)

Nova came out in 1969, not really mid-60s, though :-)  The MicroNOVA was 
1977.

> PDP-11 (LSI-11)

Definitely not mid 1960s.  The first PDP-11 appeared in 1970, and LSI-11 
came out in 1975!

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