Re: rtVAX300 .. need help..

[Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost> 
wrote:
> On 2013-01-11 05:01, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>
>> On 01/10/2013 10:59 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> It's more than the 11/10, but it's also really weird, and I don't
>>>>> remember if it's front panel only, but you might be right on that one.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    11/05 too, but that's the same machine.  I'm pretty sure that's the
>>>> only PDP-11 CPU that does that.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have a clear memory of playing with this, and I don't recall ever
>>> playing much on an 11/10 or 11/05. I'm pretty sure it was on the 11/70...
>>>
>>> Ah, yes. Checking the processor handbook, both the 11/44 and 11/70 have
>>> the general registers at memory addresses for manipulating from the
>>> front panel/console. Other do as well, but I'm not going to read through
>>> all documentation right now.
>>> (The 1979 processor handbook, page 329 shows it for the 11/70 anyway.)
>>
>>
>>    So they do!  Wow, I've never run across that.
>
>
> You've probably not sat as much in front of a PDP-11/70 front panel as me...
> ;-)
>
>
>         Johnny
>
> --
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Hello!
Well he does live with a good collection of them. Also a crowd of
frustrated Yeti and six snowmen.....

Gang can we put this aside and concentrate on what's what, and who's
who regarding the Port of NetBSD for the VAX?
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8%gmail.com@localhost
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