Collecting PCs

From: allisonp_at_world.std.com <(allisonp_at_world.std.com)>
Date: Wed May 19 10:16:11 1999

> I wasn't entirely clear. The 8/L's and 8/i's have very accessible
> interconnects as compared to the cluster of five OMNIBUS cards in
> the 8/e CPU.

70% of the cpu is on the bus any way with omnibus, accessability of the
cpu internals is trivial in 8e/f/m.

> I didn't mean modern like IDE disks, though that's an idea. I meant
> modern for the PDP-8 in general (RL8A/RL01, RK8E/RK05 vs DF32 and RF08).

The omnibus machines are a real kick to interface it's a simple matter.
It was part of the machines success as people could hang things on them
with minimal difficulty.

Allison
Received on Wed May 19 1999 - 10:16:11 BST