20 Jan
2015
20 Jan
'15
4:57 p.m.
On 1/20/15 8:02 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
It's not all that bad! ;-) When in UI mode, it'll support 115200 bps.
When in emulation mode
you'll be limited to 19200. Since the J1 has to process each character
as it comes in from the
UART, that takes time from emulation of other Unibus requests (so memory
latency will go up
slightly). Going too much faster and it would probably be noticeable
and besides the PDP-11
probably won't keep up (at least and do very much with the characters).
I do everything on a Mac. :-P Having ported "Unix" programs between
Unix/Linux on various
occasions, it's the details (like where header files live) that cause
problems. I'll leave it up to
someone else to do that. ;-)
Oh, and one last thing that I forgot to mention. I'm building a "LED"
board that attaches to the
MEM11. The LED board will display all of the indicators for the RF11
controller in a layout similar
to what was on a real RF11. I couldn't resist more blinkin lights. ;-)
It's optional and will
connect to the MEM11 with a small cable (I plan on using RS485 drivers
for the cable) so the
LED board can be a fair distance away. It'll fit as a 19" rack panel (I
haven't looked at doing
an overlay to make it look pretty) but it'll be somewhat generic (4 rows
of 36 LEDs).
TTFN - Guy
From: Guy
Sotomayor
I'm using FRAM. They have unlimited write
cycles
Although I hear the latest flash have very, very large numbers of write
cycles. But if you can get large enough FRAMs, yeah, they seem like a better
alternative.
I didn't want to have any sort of removable
media as that bring its own
sets of challenges.
Oh well, back to loading all the bits in over a serial line (although I
suppose if one has some other removable media drive, e.g. a RX02, one could
get the bits in that way). > (Or perhaps even a front-end running on a PC
which is connected to
> the MEM11 over the serial line.)
That was my original thought (command front end)
but that would mean
writing/supporting a bunch of different programs for different
OS/platforms
Well, probably only at most two (Windoze and Linux), and maybe only one (since
there are Windows emulation packages for Linux). Although if one stuck to a
line-oriented interface, something like CygWin would allow one to have only
one version.