25 Nov
2001
25 Nov
'01
8:27 p.m.
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Gunther Schadow wrote:
Who knows what processor/architecture an HSC90 is? Is
it a PDP-11?
What's it's bus? Sounds like it doesn't mix with UNIBUS or Q-BUS
cards at least not looking at the card numbers "Lxxxx" (HSC) vs.
"Mxxxx" (UNIBUS/Q-BUS).
It's a PDP-11. It's not Q-bus, nor Unibus.
The reason I'm asking is that I'm looking for
the most multi-
use of my big-iron hardware that takes up so much space. I believe
I will be able to run the console computer of my future 11/78x
as a PDP-11. Would be nice if this is possible with the HSC90
as well. I would like to:
- provide a PDP-11/RSX-11 environment for my neighbor to play
with without getting a dedicated PDP-11. Probably I can do that
in the future with the LSI-11 of the VAX 11/78x that hopefully
some day will decorate my garage.
Huh? Are you saying that you plan on running the front-end as a regular
PDP-11? It's quite a non-standard configuration as far as PDP-11s go.
- try running 2.9 BSD on a PDP-11. Not knowing much
about
2.x BSD, I could imagine making the HSC90 into a UNIX-based
file server or something.
2.11 will not boot on an HSC. It's quite a special environment, and the
only mass-storage that the PDP-11 have itself is the RX50 floppies.
Johnny
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