News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode. Parent comment

Re:Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straig... by projektfu on Thursday May 25, 2023 @02:39PM (#36074401)
And on the PDP-10, it contains a virtual robot to toggle the virtual switches on the virtual PDP-11, to load a loader that runs the virtual tape drive to load the startup program for the PDP-10.

j/k I have no idea how linux boots on Z.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straig... by cbm-vic-20 on Thursday May 25, 2023 @03:10PM (#36074768)
This actually isn't too far from the truth. The VAX 8800 series of minicomputers used a cut-down PDP-11 to boot it, and to act as a console.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX_8000#VAX_Console

[ Parent | on HN ]