Guys take a look at this qbus cpu board on Ebay :-)

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Thu Apr 18 21:57:33 2002

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Jerome H. Fine wrote:

> Qbus system is required. But it is possible to use a PCI <=> Qbus
> adapter when Ersatz-11 does not support the emulation of
> specific PDP-11 modules that are required. In that case, the
> increased speed of Ersatz-11 (up to TWENTY times the speed
> of an 11/93 with a Pentium IV 2 GHz (sigh and yeck at the same
> time) shows that software emulation has great advantages over
> a hardware solution for some applications.

Except that a real PDP-11 will probably be a good deal more stable than a
PC. And how are PC's running windows at things like realtime data
acquisition?

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Thu Apr 18 2002 - 21:57:33 BST

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