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| manufacturer = [[Digital Equipment Corporation]]
 
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[[Image:ka10.jpg|thumb|left|KA10-based PDP-10 system]]
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[[Image:KA10 mod end.jpg|150px|thumb|left|B-series FLIP CHIP used in the KA10 CPU]]
  
 
The '''KA10''' was the first generation of [[PDP-10]] [[Central Processing Unit|processors]] (themselves, exact re-implementations of the earlier [[PDP-6]] architecture). It was built out of discrete transistors, on [[DEC card form factor|short single]] [[FLIP CHIP]] cards.
 
The '''KA10''' was the first generation of [[PDP-10]] [[Central Processing Unit|processors]] (themselves, exact re-implementations of the earlier [[PDP-6]] architecture). It was built out of discrete transistors, on [[DEC card form factor|short single]] [[FLIP CHIP]] cards.
 
[[Image:KA10 mod end.jpg|150px|thumb|left|B-series FLIP CHIP used in the KA10 CPU]]
 
  
 
It had hardware support for [[time-sharing]] (two modes, 'User' and 'Executive'), as well as [[base and bounds]] memory management hardware. These were used in the first [[DECsystem-10]] models, running [[TOPS-10]].
 
It had hardware support for [[time-sharing]] (two modes, 'User' and 'Executive'), as well as [[base and bounds]] memory management hardware. These were used in the first [[DECsystem-10]] models, running [[TOPS-10]].
  
 
It was also the machine on which the [[ITS]] and [[TENEX]] [[operating system]]s were developed, after the machines were modified to provide [[paging]].
 
It was also the machine on which the [[ITS]] and [[TENEX]] [[operating system]]s were developed, after the machines were modified to provide [[paging]].
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[[Image:KA10FrontPanel.jpg|thumb|left|300px|The front panel of a KA10]]
  
 
[[Category: PDP-10 Processors]]
 
[[Category: PDP-10 Processors]]

Revision as of 18:56, 22 November 2018


KA10
Ka10.jpg
KA10-based PDP-10 system
Manufacturer: Digital Equipment Corporation
Architecture: PDP-10
Year Design Started: January, 1966
Year First Shipped: September, 1967
Form Factor: mainframe
Word Size: 36 bits
Logic Type: silicon transistors and diodes
Design Type: asynchronous with hardware subroutines
Clock Speed: 3 μsec (approximately - different instructions take different amounts of time, the CPU is not synchronous)
Memory Speed: 1.0 μsec (fast), 1.8 μsec (slow)
Physical Address Size: 18 bits (normal), 19/20 (ITS paging box), ?? (TENEX paging box)
Virtual Address Size: 18 bits
Memory Management: dual base and bounds register pairs (non-customized machines)
Operating System: Monitor, ITS, WAITS, TENEX
Predecessor(s): PDP-6
Successor(s): KI10
Price: US$150K (CPU), US$300-700K (system)


B-series FLIP CHIP used in the KA10 CPU

The KA10 was the first generation of PDP-10 processors (themselves, exact re-implementations of the earlier PDP-6 architecture). It was built out of discrete transistors, on short single FLIP CHIP cards.

It had hardware support for time-sharing (two modes, 'User' and 'Executive'), as well as base and bounds memory management hardware. These were used in the first DECsystem-10 models, running TOPS-10.

It was also the machine on which the ITS and TENEX operating systems were developed, after the machines were modified to provide paging.

The front panel of a KA10