19 May
1999
19 May
'99
3:16 a.m.
I wasn't entirely clear. The 8/L's and
8/i's have very accessible
interconnects as compared to the cluster of five OMNIBUS cards in
the 8/e CPU.
70% of the cpu is on the bus any way with omnibus, accessability of the
cpu internals is trivial in 8e/f/m.
I didn't mean modern like IDE disks, though
that's an idea. I meant
modern for the PDP-8 in general (RL8A/RL01, RK8E/RK05 vs DF32 and RF08).
The omnibus machines are a real kick to interface it's a simple matter.
It was part of the machines success as people could hang things on them
with minimal difficulty.
Allison