PDP11/23 More dumb questions

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Tue Mar 28 16:38:16 2000

On Mar 28, 15:25, CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com wrote:
> >> >M7195
> >>
> >> 128 kbyte RAM
>
> >It's actually a MXV11-B Multifunction card, with 128KB RAM, and ...
>
> >> It's also particularly confusing, because you evidently have no serial
> >> line cards nor disk controllers in the backplane. I have no idea
> >> how you even got the ODT prompt out of the machine.
>
> >... the MXV11-B has two SLUs, of the same type as a DLV11.
>
> Yeah, that makes more sense. I still don't know how his machine is
> supposed to boot from disk without a disk controller, though!

Ah, that's the magic part :-)

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Tue Mar 28 2000 - 16:38:16 BST

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