MSV11-R doc needed

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Wed May 6 18:59:41 CDT 2020


    > From: Chris Zach

    > http://www.aceware.com.au/acms/images/Invent/GeneralRoboticsMSV_11R.jpg

I don't know what that is, but it's not an MSV11-R. Here:

  https://gunkies.org/wiki/File:MSV11-R.jpg

is an MSV11-R.


    > Maybe it's PMI memory without ECC? I count 18 bits across which seems 
    > like the MSV11-Q parity memory.

Alas, there is almost zilch original DEC documentation extant which speaks of
it; not even uNote #28:

  http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/hardware/micronotes/numerical/micronote28.txt

which briefly covers all the other late DEC QBUS memories (including the
MSV11-M, which ia otherwise _completely_ un-documented) mentions it.

But I agree that given the 18 chips, it'a probably parity.

	Noel


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