DECstation - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Decstation: Encyclopedia Ii - Decstation - Second Decstation Line
The second line of DECstations began with the DECstation 2100 and 3100, released in 1989, which were the first commercially available RIS...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dec Alpha: Encyclopedia - Dec Alpha
The DEC Alpha, also known as the Alpha AXP, is a 64-bit RISC microprocessor originally developed and fabricated by Digital Equipment Corp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mips Magnum: Encyclopedia Ii - Mips Magnum - Components
MIPS Magnum - Processors. As mentioned, the MIPS Magnum 3000 includes a MIPS R3000A processor running at either 25 MHz or 33 MHz. The M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dec Alpha: Encyclopedia Ii - Dec Alpha - History
Alpha was born out of an earlier RISC project named PRISM, itself the final product of several earlier projects. DEC had been marketing t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Digital Equipment Corporation: Encyclopedia Ii - Digital Equipment Corporation - History
The company was founded in 1957 by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson, two engineers who had been working at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on the TX-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linux Kernel: Encyclopedia Ii - Linux Kernel - History
The project was launched in 1991 with a famous post to the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix that includes this sentence: "I'm doing a (fre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tru64: Encyclopedia Ii - Tru64 - Osf/1
In 1988, during the so-called "Unix wars", DEC joined with IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and others to form the Open Software Foundation (OSF) to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mips Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Mips Architecture - History
In 1981, a team led by John L. Hennessy at Stanford University started work on what would become the first MIPS processor. The basic conc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mips Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Mips Architecture - Other Models And Future Plans
Other members of the MIPS family include the R6000, an ECL implementation of the MIPS architecture which was produced by Bipolar Integrat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mips Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Mips Architecture - Mips Programming And Emulation
There is a freely available "MIPS R2000/R3000 Simulator" called SPIM for several operating systems (specifically Unix or GNU/Linux; Mac O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mips Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Mips Architecture - Applications
Among the manufacturers which made computer workstation systems using MIPS processors are SGI, MIPS Computer Systems, Inc., Olivetti, Sie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mips Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Mips Architecture - Mips Cores
In recent years most of the technology used in the various MIPS generations has been offered as building-blocks for embedded processor de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mips Magnum: Encyclopedia Ii - Mips Magnum - Historical Development
The MIPS Magnum 3000 used a MIPS R3000 processor and a custom, proprietary motherboard which incorporated the Turbochannel bus licensed f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linux Kernel: Encyclopedia Ii - Linux Kernel - Technical Features
Linux kernel - Architecture. The Linux kernel includes true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mips Magnum: Encyclopedia Ii - Mips Magnum - Series
Model number information. MIPS Magnum - MIPS Magnum 3000. Alternative model name: MIPS RC3230 Release: March, 1990 Initial price: $900...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mips Magnum: Encyclopedia Ii - Mips Magnum - Operating Systems
MIPS Magnum - Windows NT. The MIPS Magnum R4000 ran either Windows NT (beginning with version 3.1) when equipped with the little-endian...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mips Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Mips Architecture - Mips Cpu Family
The first commercial MIPS CPU, model, the R2000, was announced in 1985. It added multiple-cycle multiply and divide instructions in a som...   » Read the article