EGO was started by FHP engineers that declined to relocate, one of which was
me. The projects only became competitive after FHP moved to North Carolina
and expanded its objectives. The book is accurate on this point, and pretty
much everything else.

73,

Dave, AA6YQ

"John R. Strohm" wrote in message
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"Dave, AA6YQ" wrote in message
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No cheating! If you're going to homebrew a PDP-8, you have to build it
out
of discrete TTL.

73,

Dave, AA6YQ
Data General, 1972 - 1981
Designer of the Nova 2, Nova 3, MP200, and microEclipse CPUs,
as
well as some parts of FHP and EGO

I thought FHP and EGO were completely separate, competing projects?
(Admittedly, my only source is Kidder's book.)