>
> >Very good point. I was thinking that it would be nice to have a machine that
> >was a PDP-11 as soon as you flipped on the power, but probably not worth the
> >cost and hassle of the flash. Didn't some of the VAXen boot their microcode
> >from a floppy?
>
> Yes, the VAX 11/780 does.
> --Chuck
Actually much of the 11/780 microcode is in rom.
The stuff loaded from RX01 is mostly bug fixes to the rom code.
The patches went into the Writeable Control Store board.
The 11/785 went to completely RAM loaded microcode.
The 11/780 did have an optional second User Writeable Control Store
board.
-Bill
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Received on Tue Sep 18 2001 - 13:46:14 BST