[SunRescue] Re: rescue digest, Vol 1 #1105 - 18 msgs

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Some of their stand alone machines are VME.  I think others are
proprietary.  The only NuBus ones I know of are the MacIvory machines,
which sit in a Mac host.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 dave at cca.org wrote:

> wlewis at mailbag.com writes:
> 
> >Then again, my idea of ideal hardware is an Xerox D-machine or a
> >Symbolics UX-1200 VME board for a Sun box(I'd damn near do anything for
> >one... Anyone here got one for sale???). Good as *nix is, the real Lisp
> >Machines blow it completely out of the water. To me, the best DEC is/was
> >a PDP-10 running Interlisp...  ;'p
> 
> I've never seen a Symbolics VME board, though I had a suspicion such
> things existed. All of their stand-alone computers were nubus though,
> right?
> 
> I think it's odd that two of the most famous lisp environments were
> on PDP-10 and Symbolics hardware, both of which are 36-bit, but the
> word size is used for *completely* different reasons. Weird coincidence.
> 
> -- david fischer -- dave at cca.org -- www.cca.org -- Cthulhu told me to. --
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