On 2015-07-06 3:33 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
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One other note about the MC-500. If was the first commercial
Multiprocessor UNIX (predating the 386 bases symmetric boxes but a few
years) as well as being the first real time UNIX box. I still have working
one in my basement. It has 4 CPU boards in it with a 68010 and 68000 on
each, plus a 68000 in the display processor, a number of 29000's in the FP
and APP's units, more 29000 logic in the Data Acq Unit, as well as 80186 in
the network processor. All in all, a pretty neat federation of processors
each doing their thing.
Pretty cool for early 1980s'
Small quibble - If you mean AMD 29K wasn't released until 1988? So those
boards must have come later than the MC-500 itself (~1984?)
--Toby
Clem
