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Al Morgan December 2000. 2. Strobe Data - Background. Founded in 1972 Initially Data General OEMProvided real-time systems for industry and governmentDevelop, manufacture and sell PC based compatible minicomputer systems. Al Morgan December 2000. 3. Hawk - Migrates Data General Nova and Eclipse Hardware and Operating system to Wintel platform. Osprey - Migrates DEC PDP-11 Hardware, Operating system and Application software to Wintel platform. Kestrel Project - Will Migrate HP1000 hard1143
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5. Al Morgan December 2000 5 PDP-11 to Osprey Co-Processor
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38. Al Morgan December 2000 38 Osprey Co-Processor highlights! Code and Binary compatible with PDP-11 software and application code.
Emulates a wide class of PDP-11 peripherals.
Full architectural emulation supports all PDP-11 software.
Q-bus and Unibus adapters available for special I/O needs
99% of the time plug and play!!
39. Al Morgan December 2000 39 Benefits of an Osprey! Move to a high reliability, low maintenance cost system platform
Investment protection
Keep existing peripherals
Retain the existing code and licenses
Preserve special or custom I/O devices using Q-bus and Unibus adapters
Access to new, cost-effective technology
Replace low-density, high-cost PDP-11 mass storage peripherals with modern commodity devices
Migration of multiple PDP-11 systems to a single PC
Code development can continue as on a real PDP-11, Or data from the PDP-11 can be piped into new applications on the PC without disturbing the PDP-11 code.
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