PDP-11/53

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Fri May 18 18:28:01 2001

On May 18, 16:06, healyzh_at_aracnet.com wrote:

> Actually I was talking about using the 3rd party controller to boot the
> system after you remove the ROMs from the /53. I'm not talking about
> putting the ROMs from the 3rd party disk controller into the sockets on
the
> /53, which obviously wouldn't work so well.

I wondered about that -- but it won't necessarily initialise everything
correctly. Emulex boot ROMs won't always set up all the registers in a
J11, or initialise large amounts of parity or ECC RAM, for example.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
Received on Fri May 18 2001 - 18:28:01 BST

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