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

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Thu Apr 18 22:49:41 2002

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Ben Franchuk 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?
>
> My computer ( 600 Mhz ?? ) states not to use the seriel port faster than
> 9600 because the internal modem uses the irq line. sigh!

*shakes head*

Pathetic.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Thu Apr 18 2002 - 22:49:41 BST

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