Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
>
> 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
My computer ( 600 Mhz ?? ) states not to use the seriel port faster than
9600 because the internal modem uses the irq line. sigh!
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Received on Thu Apr 18 2002 - 22:24:57 BST