I didn't want to spend time researching this since it's not that important
and I figure I can get a quick answer here.
With the MXV21 controller I have, I needed to poke words into its
registers to format a disk. The manual instructed to poke the words in
the 177xxx range. But when I tried this nothing happened. I scratched my
head and then remembered from a previous helpful message someone talked
about how the addresses also map to higher memory sometimes. So I
tried poking the words in the equivalent 377xxx range and it worked.
What's going on here?
I'm not sure how widely known this site is, but here's a really nice
website on the PDP-11:
Yet Another PDP-11 Page
http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/pdp-11/
The "Production Models" link leads to a nice round-up of all (most?) of
the various PDP-11 models, which includes basic information and links to
photos and more detailed information on certain models. Now I have a
target list of models to acquire...8 down, 14 to go ;)
Also includes a nice page of tips for the RK05:
http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/pdp-11/rk05_internals.html
And bootstrap loaders for a bunch of storage devices:
http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/pdp-11/bootstraps.html
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