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Re: You want to use a pentium in your wearable, eh?

On Sun, 29 Mar 1998  wrote:

> 	Just to be a devil's advocate, the most backwards compatible
> popular chip line I know of is the DEC Alpha.  I'm told it still has
> the full VAX 11/750 instruction set and can run the original code.
> Heh! 

	I still have VMS 4.x with updates through 5.x around here
somewhere.  VMS on my 11/750 was fairly quick, wonder what a 21164A would
run like? ;-)

	Could be a problem connecting the 11/750s tape unit though...

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