What was a Terminal Concentration Device in DEC's products?

[Paul Koning]

> On Jan 29, 2022, at 3:58 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> From: Paul Koning
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>> DH-11 is unusual in that it has DMA in both directions
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> McNamara's DH11? (I don't know of another DECdevice of that name.) Per:
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>  http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/unibus/EK-ODH11-OP-002_DH11_Asynchronous_16-line_Multiplexer_Users_Manual_Sep76.pdf
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> it's DMA on output only; the input side has a FIFO that has to be emptied by the CPU.

Oh.  That's amazing, all these years I thought it had DMA both ways.  Clearly not.  I wonder how I got that misunderstanding.

	paul