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Article #1669Re: DECSYSTEM 20
From: Mark Robert Thorson
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1989 00:47
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1989 00:47
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My love is the pdp-11, but a microprocessor company has given small-address machines such a bad name ... With regard to the pdp-11 and the -10, I recall a puzzling fact from the PDP-11 Peripherals Handbook. Out of a large collection of peripheral products there was one which did not have "11" in its name. This was the DL10 Unibus window. It was also unusual in that it might not return slave sync for a ridiculously long time, like 30 seconds. I know DEC-20's used 11/40's as front end machines. Did they interface via a DL10? Could someone briefly describe what services the 11/40 did? (Or it might have been labelled 11/35 -- same set of CPU cards.)
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