KL power question

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Tue Feb 2 17:32:35 1999

I wrote:
> The KL had power-fail restart as a standard feature. The big capacitors

Tony replied:
> Wasn't this fairly standard on most minicomputers? Some PDP11s have a

No, it was optional on most DEC minicomputers. To the best of my knowledge,
the KL10 was the first machine from DEC for which this feature was standard
rather than optional.
Received on Tue Feb 02 1999 - 17:32:35 GMT