9 Aug
2025
9 Aug
'25
4:23 p.m.
On 8/9/2025 4:14 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
I suspect this might be what he means: "Computer Engineering: A DEC
View of Hardware Systems Design" by Gordon Bell
I still have it on my bookshelf.
bill
On Aug 8, 2025, at 5:26 PM, ben
<bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
On 2025-08-08 2:23 p.m., Paul Koning wrote:
I need to read that.
I like IBM's book, on the 7030,
and Bell's Books,on the PDP computers.
Three totaly different views, on computing.
I'm not sure which Bell book you mean, but there's Bell and Newell which is a
broad survey of computer architectures. One of the few square books I have ever seen.
On Aug 8,
2025, at 2:14 PM, ben <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
On 2025-08-08 11:52 a.m., Paul Koning wrote:
> The 6600 max memory was 128k 60-bit words, which for those days was admittedly quite
large. No VM, though it did support relocation (base address and field length, similar to
the DEC KA10). Large RAM is nice but I don't see what it has to do with RISC.
It was DRAM in SIMM packaging, that let you have a fast memory bus off the cpu chip set.
You should spend some time looking at old machine architectures, because what you
say is very 21st century centric. An excellent intro is "Design of a computer - the
Control Data 6600" by J. E. Thornton. Available on Bitsavers
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/cdc/cyber/books/DesignOfAComputer_CDC6600.pdf or you can get the
hardcover printed book.