Subject: Re: Newbie question
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/29/1997 20:35:29
On October 30, you wrote:
> >   Yes...the 750 loads microcode from the TU58 when it starts up...It
> > doesn't even know the full VAX instruction set until it spins that
> > tape, as I understand it.
> > 
> That's a misunderstanding. A 750 have the full 11/750 instruction set
> in hardware. But due to bugs in the microcode DEC provided software

  Yup...I had it mixed up with the 730 and corrected myself in a later
message...sorry 'bout the screwup... :-/

                      -Dave McGuire
                       mcguire@neurotica.com