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Article #4831Re: pdp questions...
From: Bob Hoffman
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1987 17:33
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1987 17:33
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In article <3538@aw.sei.cmu.edu> pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Pat Barron) writes:
> The 11/23, 11/23+ and 11/24 use the exact same CPU (the F-11 chipset). The
>11/23 and 11/23+ are Q-bus, while the 11/24 is Unibus. The 11/23+ has space
>for bootstrap ROMs, and also has serial ports (two, I believe) that the 11/23
>does not have.
The 11/24 also had enough 40 pin sockets to accept both the Floating Point and
the Commercial Instruction Set. The 11/23 would accept only one of them.
> ... Also, the 11/45 and 11/55
>are more-or-less the same machine.
As is the 11/50. The only difference is the type of memory supplied. If I
remember correctly, the 11/45 had only Unibus memory, the 11/50 had MOS
FastBus memory, and the 11/55 had bipolar FastBus memory. I'm still running
an 11/45 here.
> The 11/70 is a big, nasty Unibus machine. When I say "big and nasty",
>I'm not kidding. The thing needs 3-phase power to run the CPU.
You AREN'T kidding! It takes a whole BA11-K expansion box (19x22x10.5) to
hold ONE megabyte of RAM. We've still got one of them, too.
---Bob.
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Bob Hoffman, N3CVL {allegra, bellcore, cadre, idis, psuvax1}!pitt!hoffman
Pitt Computer Science hoffman%pitt@relay.cs.net
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!rochester!PT.CS.CMU.EDU!cadre!pitt!hoffman From: hoffman@pitt.UUCP (Bob Hoffman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: pdp questions... Message-ID: <2229@pitt.UUCP> Date: 22 Dec 87 17:33:22 GMT References: <16886@gatech.edu> <3538@aw.sei.cmu.edu> Reply-To: hoffman@pitt.UUCP (Bob Hoffman) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science Lines: 27