Subject: Re: Off Topic???
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Gregory McGarry <g.mcgarry@qut.edu.au>
List: port-pmax
Date: 07/24/1999 16:31:32
Matt Thomas wrote:

> >Recently I've been looking for information of the history of the
> >DECstations.  Being one of the first RISC machines, they have played
> >an important role in the development of the MIPS and ALPHA processors.
> >
> >These details are not easy to find.  What year did the models come out?
> >How were the machines marketed?  Does anyone have any pointers to
> >further information?  Do any ol'-timers out there want to share some
> >history?
> 
> A question I can answer.  Larry Palmer, Ricky Palmer, and Richard Rodriguez
> started the mips port as an advanced development project in spring 1988.
> The initial part was to port ULTRIX to MIPS (initially big endian on a real
> big-endian MIPS machine).  While that being done, WSE in Palo Alto was working
> on the hardware (which was little-endian like the VAX).

What does WSE stand for?

What I have got I have put on the web:

http://www.sprc.qut.edu.au/~mcgarry/netbsd/pmax_history.html

Regards,
Greg