UniBone: Linux-to-DEC-UNIBUS-bridge, year #1

[Josh Dersch]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 4:59 PM Chris Zach <cz at alembic.crystel.com> wrote:

> Whelp, if you're planning on doing this early next year I'll start
> dragging the KS10 box out of storage and cleaning it off. If you sell
> the boards let me know so I can buy one and support your efforts.
>

Joerg is the one building and selling the board, I'm just a
satisfied customer who's also been hacking new device support into it.
I'll keep y'all posted as to when I make progress on this.

Also if anyone has a KS they could, uh, "lend" me it sure would speed up
the development process and I'm sure you'd eventually get it back someday.

(Kidding.)

- Josh

(Not really kidding.)



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> CZ
>
> On 11/19/2019 7:53 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 2:26 PM Daniel Seagraves via cctalk
> > <cctalk at classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org>> wrote:
> >
> >      > On Nov 19, 2019, at 7:39 AM, Chris Zach via cctech
> >     <cctech at classiccmp.org <mailto:cctech at classiccmp.org>> wrote:
> >      >
> >      > Ah. Another solution to the fabled "MASSBUS" to anything adapter?
> >     Putting it in at the RH11-C level would remove a fair bit of
> >     complexity, then you could simply emulate all the Massbuss insanity
> >     through the relatively simple registers that an RH11 uses....
> >
> >     That’s the plan; That and getting a Chaosnet so I can connect my
> >     CADR to my KS10 when I get them both working at the same time.
> >
> >
> > I had plans to do an RH11 emulation, I can move it up in the stack
> > (though it won't be until early next year), and when Joerg's able to
> > provide 18-bit support we can start testing it on 36-bit machines...
> >
> >
> > - Josh
> >
>