Difference between revisions of "KL10"
From Computer History Wiki
m (Avoid redir) |
(TYMCOM-X) |
||
| Line 17: | Line 17: | ||
| memory speed = 1.0 μsec (initial [[core memory]]), 500 nsec (later [[MOS]] [[main memory]]) | | memory speed = 1.0 μsec (initial [[core memory]]), 500 nsec (later [[MOS]] [[main memory]]) | ||
| memory mgmt = [[paging]], 512-word pages | | memory mgmt = [[paging]], 512-word pages | ||
| − | | operating system = [[TOPS-10]], [[TOPS-20]], [[ITS]], [[WAITS]], [[TENEX]] | + | | operating system = [[TOPS-10]], [[TOPS-20]], [[ITS]], [[WAITS]], [[TENEX]], [[TYMCOM-X]] |
| predecessor = [[KI10]] | | predecessor = [[KI10]] | ||
| successor = none | | successor = none | ||
Revision as of 09:04, 12 January 2018
| KL10 | |
| Manufacturer: | Digital Equipment Corporation |
|---|---|
| Architecture: | PDP-10 |
| Year Design Started: | January, 1972 |
| Year First Shipped: | June, 1975 |
| Form Factor: | mainframe |
| Word Size: | 36 bits |
| Logic Type: | ECL ICs |
| Design Type: | clocked synchronous, microcoded |
| Microword Width: | 80 |
| Microcode Length: | 1280 (Model A) 2K (Model B) |
| Clock Speed: | 500 nsec |
| Cache Size: | 2K words |
| Memory Speed: | 1.0 μsec (initial core memory), 500 nsec (later MOS main memory) |
| Physical Address Size: | 22 bits |
| Virtual Address Size: | 18 bits (Model A and B) 23 bits (Model E) |
| Memory Management: | paging, 512-word pages |
| Operating System: | TOPS-10, TOPS-20, ITS, WAITS, TENEX, TYMCOM-X |
| Predecessor(s): | KI10 |
| Successor(s): | none |
| Price: | US$250K (CPU), US$600K-1.2M (system) |
The KL10 was the third generation of PDP-10 processors. It was built out of ECL, on hex cards. It was the first microprogrammed PDP-10 processor; the design was inspired by Foonly's F-1
It was used in the DECsystem-10 models 1080 and 1090 systems (with an external memory bus, compatible with the earlier KA10 and KI10), and the DECSYSTEM-20 20xx systems (with an internal memory bus).
Like its predecessor, the KI10, it was initially released in a single-processor version; a two-CPU version was released later.
There was a single KL10 ITS machine, MIT-MC. It was later renamed to MX and was shut down in 1988. There was also a KL10 in the Stanford WAITS system.
