Quoting Doug Carman <pdp11_at_bellsouth.net>:
> Not long ago I ran into some of these ATEX systems when the
> Orlando paper replaced their prepress systems. ... Although the
> racks looked like late PDP or VAXish cabinets and the CPU front
> panel looked much like an 11/84, any other resemblance to real DEC
> PDP-11's stopped there.
Well, to me, these are still good machines to rescue. Even if you
throw away the custom Atex cards, they are machines that still act
like PDP-11s. Maybe those upgrade CPU cards would be useful to
someone. Add in the rack cabinets and Kennedy 9100 and it seems
worth the $100 to me.
> The systems are arranged in a kind of parallel processing scheme
> where two of the CPU's dispatch work to all the others via a
> custom network between CPU's.
That appears to be the same kind of setup they have.
So far, there have only been a few people wanting a CPU card or two.
No one has come out wanting to take the whole load like the owners
want. Maybe I have overestimated their desirability.
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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss_at_ou.edu
Received on Sun Jun 10 2001 - 20:47:33 BST