7 Sep
2016
7 Sep
'16
7:20 p.m.
On 09/07/16 05:02, Noel Chiappa wrote:
The other thing that makes no sense is that the KDJ11-B (M8190) has all that
extra circuitry on it to support PMI, etc - all of which is unused in the
11/73 application! Why not just plug in a (presumably cheaper) M8192?
In Marketing-land, the VAXstation II RC, with epoxy in the
factory-unused slots, makes sense...
On 09/07/16 07:34, Pete Turnbull wrote:
Don't forget the LTC :-) All in all it saves a decent amount of
backplane space, makes field service easier, and follows DEC's attempts
to integrate as much as possible. Otherwise, you'd need an additional
bootstrap card such as an MRV11-D with -B2 boot ROMs, a DLVE1 (DLV11-JE)
for the SLUs, something with an LTC, and termination. That's at least
twice as many slots in a Q-Q backplane and four slots in Q-CD.
I think this makes sense in Engineering-land, good point. ;)
Anybody know what the most common actually-shipped configuration of the
MicroPDP-11/73 were? BA23, M8190, 1 RAM board, RQDX_, and DLV11?
--S.