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Originally Posted by LarryBible
Wow, I thought that I was the only person on the forum that had ever even HEARD of Digital Equipment Corporation. I started on a PDP 8 in 1974. I did some minor machine language work with it. It had 4K (12 bit) Core memory. Unless you work with something like that, you don't REALLY understand what it means to "Boot" a computer.
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I work on AXP machines every day, but they are a bit more powerful than that PDP. We have 1-way through 16-way machines, tons of memory. I get into the guts of them now and then too, with the OS-provided tools. Wrote a few things in Macro-32 and Macro-64, but only some short routines to run in kernel mode. I found that I cannot beat the C compiler for speed, no matter how careful I am with Macro code. Now, reading assembly language is another matter; I have to do that all the time.
Now with the DEC -> Compaq -> HP transition, they're "out of the CPU business" and are buying Itanium chips from Intel. HP likes to call them "Integrity Server" but I like "Itanic" more.