fpga pdp's; [was Re: ...arrogance [was RE: UNIX V7] ]

[Bob Adamson]

Eric Smith wrote:
>> Brad Parker wrote:
>>> I did a "direct decode" pdp-11 in verilog recently just to see how 
>>> big it would be (and because I was frustrated with the pop-11 
>>> project).  It fits nicely & boots RT11 at 50mhz.
>> At that speed, surely it hasn't finished booting RT11 yet!
> sorry, I don't get the joke.  clock is 50mhz, or 20ns; each state is one 
> clock and on average
> an instruction is 3 states.  I calculated 10mips.  it seems to boot much 
> faster than my 11/44 :-)
> 
> what did I miss?

Possibly a pedant distinguishing (correctly) between mega and milli? ;o)
Bob