In order to qualify as a GCOS-8 Operator I was required to know how to configure all of
these from memory, so I could configure and cold-boot the system from scratch. As a
Systems Analyst, I never touched them.
We had two DPS-8 mainframes. One was a single CPU Development system, that at night we
could do whatever we wanted with, for training. The other was the 4-CPU production
system.
Zane
On Mar 12, 2016, at 10:57 AM, COURYHOUSE at
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wrote:
and for horrible deep level maint. I would imagine they would be useful....
they look like something too complex to let operations level people diddle with...
but are these used with exactly WHICH Honeywell system? If we are going to
display them need to tell the right story in the museum.
Ed#
In a message dated 3/12/2016 7:44:50 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, dave.g4ugm at
gmail.com writes:
The panels would be pretty much un-used Unlike 360 panels these were hidden behind doors
for most of the time. Assuming the work the same on a Multics box as on a regular L66/DPS
box the only time they were really used was if you split a 2 x CPU system into 2 x 1 CPU
system, or changed the memory configuration from interleaved to non-interleaved. Pretty
sure you could IPL from the console.
Dave
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Subject: Honneywell multics? from panels. the inline phots in this message folks -smecc
ok sent to all the people cc on the multics stuff.. will not go though on main
listserv probably
here are some of the panels think there is more there are at least 2 of each type
one set will make display her at smecc museum in az the other set??? maybe someone
want to wire into an emulator <<<grin!>>>
aside from a little dust and bad lighting these things look like they were pretty
unused thanks ed#
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