Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!alzabo!andras
From: andras@alzabo.uucp (Andras Kovacs)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Top Ten Computer Architectures (was Re: UNIX)
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.232724.730@alzabo.uucp>
Date: 21 Nov 90 23:27:24 GMT
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Reply-To: andras@alzabo.UUCP (Andras Kovacs)
Organization: Brian's XENIXlings, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <0093FFDB.70843660@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
>Maybe we could do the Top 10 cloned-architectures in Eastern Europe? :-)   

    Most certainly. Without trying to be too exhaustive, the whole so-called
'R' series in the East Block are 360/370 clones (I was an operator on a
R-35 which was supposedly the equivalent of an IBM 370/145 - is there such
IBM model? - and on a R-40 which was some System 360 equivalent). In Hungary
we had the TPAs which were PDP clones (I believe PDP-8). The Soviets had some
decent PDP-11 clones (can't recall the name). But the best were the East Germans
They were making the Zilog 80 chip (I don't know under which arrangement). So
they had this Z-80 @ 2.5MHz - it was HOT! I mean, you had to divert some cool
air onto it; it run very hot (at least in that machine I was working with).
But they had a machine which had this Z-80 int it and emulated (I believe) the
PDP-11 instruction set! I recall that the programmer ladies(!) were afraid to
change anything in their COBOL programs 'cause a recompilation on a ~200 line
source took ~30 minutes...
    (Do you know that I can pick up a 40MB hard disk at Budapest for less than
here in Ottawa? Hungarians are hot for high tech and we started to make IBM PC
clones around 1985...)

Egeszsegetekre
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Andras Kovacs
andras@alzabo.UUCP