15 Apr
2004
15 Apr
'04
9:13 a.m.
>>>> "Tom" == Tom Ponsford
<tponsford(a)theriver.com> writes:
Tom> Paul Koning wrote:
> The bus architecture is completely unrelated to
that of any other
> PDP11, and ugly/messy/baroque/bogus at that.
Tom> It uses a CTI bus and as far as I know it is the only DEC
Tom> product (the 300 series) that uses it. It does however, offer
Tom> bitmap graphics, that is usually unavailable for most pdp's.
That's true. A pretty limited one. And does any OS actually support
the graphics capabilities? I think even P/OS just treated it as
lobotomized VT100.
Tom> There is a (modified) version of BSD 2.9 that runs on the
Tom> Pro350, and is freely available
Hm... interesting. A Pro-380 is close enough to a -350 that it might
also run there; if not then it shouldn't be hard to fix.
paul