yet another pdp-11 in fgpa

[arcarlini at iee.org]

Johnny Billquist [bqt at softjar.se] wrote:
> I wasn't aware that any prototypes ever were produced and
> came as far as
> being functional. I thought it was just paper work that had bee done.

iirc CASTOR and POLLUX were PDP-11/74s that were actually used by one of
the
DEC PDP-11 software groups for a while. (Or maybe the PDP-11/74 was used
for
a while and then broken up to form CASTOR and POLLUX ... )

> Nice to hear. Too bad the machine never got to production. It
> would have
> been a nice system...

I've read somewhere that it was full of flat ribbon cables and would 
have been a beast to maintain.

Antonio