18 Apr
2000
18 Apr
'00
7:47 a.m.
But have you tried to get an IDE drive to work with a
Qbus? That would seem
No, not yet. The probelm there is more one of drivers than interface.
At the interface level, it's ben done by a russian chap. The problem with
that design is it's PIO driven and as a result slower than putty. A good
IDE interface wtih DMA has the potential to rival some of the faster
interfaces used on Qbus as it would not have all the protocal overhead.
I have adaquate devices for my PDP-11s but I'd love to build a small
T-11 powered box. Two limitations to doing that, an extreme shortage of
time and a free OS I can write a driver for (RT11 and unix don't count).
of the 3rd party manufactures did not do an MSCP
emulation. And if you are
still concerned about using MSCP until or before the patent expires, there are
Silly question, why bother with MSCP at all? A native drive like RL02,
DSD-880, RKnn would work just as well and offer better performance.
Answer, it's a standard that everyone seems to emulate.
Besides CP/M based systems are where I hardware hack the most.
Allison