18 Sep
2001
18 Sep
'01
7:34 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Chuck McManis
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:54 PM
Actually a more compelling idea for me would be to reverse engineer the
processor on a modern disk drive (like a SCSI drive) and then
reprogram the
disk controller boards firmware such that the disk thought it was
a PDP-11.
--Chuck
Cute idea.
Aren't the newer IDE drives bus masters? The CPU on the drive could request
the bus, kick the Pentium off and put it to sleep permanently, and *be* the
PDP-11.
You could also build an adapter that allows the IDE drive to slide into the
first slot on a Qbus backplane and be the CPU.
Possible?
--
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