[vcf-midatlantic] Working on a historical microprocessor exhibt

[Jameel Akari]

On 2020-02-12 20:50, David Riley wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2020, at 12:20 PM, Jameel Akari via vcf-midatlantic
> <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>> Like, I can donate or loan an early POWER or a VAX 6000 CPU board 
>> (they are both awesome looking artifacts) but now you've got large 
>> things next to very small things. ;)
> 
> Worth noting that the VAX 6000 isn't a microprocessor, per se; the
> Mariah chipset, which was also used in a reduced capacity in the uVax
> 3100-80 (of which I have one), is a multi-chip processor.  I think
> it's actually an interesting illustration of how multi-chip CPU
> architectures coexisted alongside true (single-chip) microprocessors
> (e.g. CVAX) for a while while they fought for superiority, but it's
> probably outside the scope of this exhibit.


Yup, it's definitely out of the scope as its now been described.  I 
threw those examples out there as "you could end up with things like 
this if you let the scope get too wide."  Then you'd have to try to 
explain to visitors what you just describe.


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Jameel Akari