Boot RXS

[Jon Elson]

On 01/01/2018 10:30 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
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> On 1/1/2018 10:35 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
>>      > From: John Welch
>>
>>      > SAV -- SOFTWARE CONFIGURED FOR ENABLE HARDWARE 
>> WHICH DOES NOT RESPOND.
>>      > HALTED.
>>      > Does anyone have any hints on how I can guess what 
>> I need to add?
>>
>> Well, Able made a thing called an 'Able ENABLE' which 
>> allowed use of more
>> than 256KB of physical memory on any UNIBUS -11 with 
>> memory mapping hardware
>> which wasn't an -11/70-44-24. That's probably what it's 
>> talking about.
> I had a meeting with Ken Omohundro on 12/7 and will be 
> having dinner with him again soon.  I'll ask him about 
> it.  I know he doesn't have any records left, but I could 
> take him your notes and see what he recalls.  Also I can 
> perhaps get engineer names and try to track them down.
>
> I hope to get a biography and history of his companies 
> including Able, and figure somewhere to get it stored.
>
Hey, this has to be a guy I met at Washington University 
(St. Louis, MO.) in about 1971 or so.

Jon