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If you want to learn about the history of VAX chips I very strongly recommend this oral history: Supnik, Robert oral history https://www.computerhistory.org/c
by panick21_ 1y ago
If you want to learn about the history of VAX chips I very strongly recommend this oral history:
Supnik, Robert oral history
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102738264/search/collection:oral-histories--keyword:vax/ https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10273826...
If you have any interest in VAX or DEC or chip design in the 80s. This is a must watch.
Later also goes into how Alpha was created in Part 2.
- kjs3 1y agoBob Supnik is a really interesting guy. Probably best known these days for being a maintainer of the SIMH emulation environment. He's forgotten more about computers than most people will ever know.
- panick21_ 1y agoThat's why I love Computer History Oral interviews the knowledge is crazy.
- Suzuran 1y agoThe simh maintainer kicked Bob out a couple years back in a spat over containerization (no, not that kind) and changed the simh license to non-Free over it. A new fork has emerged that Bob is involved in, but it's not the same simh that can trace its lineage back to DEC SCP.