22 Dec
2005
22 Dec
'05
8:21 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
An interesting thought, but weren't the RP disks formatted to 18-bit
words when used on 36-bit hosts? If one kludged up an interface with
some smarts, perhaps one could format a SCSI disk to something other
than 512 8-bit-bytes per sector. The RP20(?) emulator could then
request a larger block, then repackage it and feed it up to the KS10
as 36-bit words.
That's the idea. As I recall Eric Smith understood this - we emailed
once and he mentioned supporting a 10 on unibus. I don't remember the
details but I'm sure he know. (I'll dredge up the email)
-brad
(who doesn't own any 36-bit hardware, but enjoys
running TOPS-20 on klh10)
always the difficult one, I've been enjoying ITS on klh10 :-)