Front panel switches - what did they do?

[Paul Koning]

> On May 24, 2016, at 9:49 PM, Jon Elson <elson at pico-systems.com> wrote:
> 
> On 05/24/2016 12:17 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>> A couple of observations.
>> 
>> Taking the PDP-11 as a fairly typical example, the switches are "data" and "address".  While running, the data switches were visible to the software, and could do something if you wanted to (typically this wasn't done).
> Actually, all PDP-11s I used had one set of switches, that could be used for address or data, as appropriate to the operation. 

Oops, of course, you're correct.

	paul