10 Jun
2001
10 Jun
'01
1:47 p.m.
Quoting Doug Carman <pdp11(a)bellsouth.net>et>:
Not long ago I ran into some of these ATEX systems
when the
Orlando paper replaced their prepress systems. ... Although the
racks looked like late PDP or VAXish cabinets and the CPU front
panel looked much like an 11/84, any other resemblance to real DEC
PDP-11's stopped there.
Well, to me, these are still good machines to rescue. Even if you
throw away the custom Atex cards, they are machines that still act
like PDP-11s. Maybe those upgrade CPU cards would be useful to
someone. Add in the rack cabinets and Kennedy 9100 and it seems
worth the $100 to me.
The systems are arranged in a kind of parallel
processing scheme
where two of the CPU's dispatch work to all the others via a
custom network between CPU's.
That appears to be the same kind of setup they have.
So far, there have only been a few people wanting a CPU card or two.
No one has come out wanting to take the whole load like the owners
want. Maybe I have overestimated their desirability.
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)ou.edu