MP VAXen, was Re: PDP-8/e and terminals in West Sussex, UK

Are you referring to this Micronote? http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/hardwar… I've accumulated the bits and pieces to try this out, but haven't gotten to it yet. The Micronote states that the DEC OSs don't do anything with this, which has always intrigued me: so the hardware guys made this cool feature and the software guys ignored it? :-) -- Ian ________________________________________ From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Steven M Jones [classiccmp at crash.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:38 PM To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: MP VAXen, was Re: PDP-8/e and terminals in West Sussex, UK Patrick Finnegan wrote: I'd heard about this long ago, but never read the paper and had forgotten about it. Thanks, this is already a fun read two pages in. This also reminds me that I'd heard rumors of people tying more than one KA630 together, but I don't have any details about that. I seem to remember some implementation details from the relevant processor handbook that seemed like they would have facilitated this, but those books are out of reach... --S.