NPR and the RX11 (was Re: help needed: problem with UNIBUS access on my PDP-11/70)

From: Megan <mbg_at_TheWorld.com>
Date: Mon Jul 15 23:23:00 2002

The RX11 isn't DMA... when you give a command, it reads to a silo which
the driver has to dump, a character at a time, or writes the silo which
has been written, a character at a time...

I just checked the RT-11 RX01 driver source to confirm it...

                                        Megan Gentry
                                        Former RT-11 Developer

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