KI10

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KI10
Manufacturer: Digital Equipment Corporation
Architecture: PDP-10
Year Design Started: December, 1969
Year First Shipped: May, 1972
Form Factor: mainframe
Word Size: 36 bits
Logic Type: TTL ICs
Design Type: clocked synchronous
Instruction Speed: 1 μsec
Memory Speed: 1.0 μsec (fast), 1.8 μsec (slow)
Physical Address Size: 22 bits
Virtual Address Size: 18 bits
Memory Management: paging, 512-word pages
Operating System: TOPS-10, TENEX, TYMCOM-X
Predecessor(s): KA10
Successor(s): KL10
Price: US$200K (CPU), US$500K-1M (system)


KI10 at Tymshare

The KI10 was the second generation of PDP-10 processors (themselves, exact re-implementations of the earlier PDP-6 architecture). It was built out of TTL chips, on small FLIP CHIP cards.

It was the first PDP-10 model to provide paging in its as-shipped form, with 512-word pages. It was initially released in a single-CPU version (DECsystem-1060 and -1070); a two-CPU version (DECsystem-1077) was released later.

It was used in later DECsystem-10 models, running TOPS-10. Via a series of kludges, it was also possible to run TENEX on the as-shipped hardware.

A few documents refer to the KI10-based system as PDP-10I.

Busses

Memory bus Quick Latch connector (in unlatched position)

Although the KI10 CPU provided two each of PDP-10 Memory Bus and PDP-10 I/O Bus connectors (Quick Latch connectors for the former), there is only one bus of each type; the two connectors are provided for physical cabling convenience (left and right of the CPU cabinet).

The KI10 Memory Bus is slightly different from that of the KA10; KA10-style memories can be used on a KI10, but require use of a KI10-M Memory Bus Adapter (see Section 6.7 of the KI10 Central Processor Maintenance Manual).

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