PDP11/23 More dumb questions - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Mar 2000

On Mar 28, 15:25, CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com wrote:
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  > >M7195
>
> 128 kbyte RAM 
 It's actually a MXV11-B Multifunction card,
with 128KB RAM, and ... 
 > It's also particularly confusing, because
you evidently have no serial
> line cards nor disk controllers in the backplane.  I have no idea
> how you even got the ODT prompt out of the machine. 
 ... the MXV11-B has two SLUs, of the same type as
a DLV11. 
 Yeah, that makes more sense.  I still don't know how his machine is
 supposed to boot from disk without a disk controller, though! 
Ah, that's the magic part :-)

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York