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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
- Path: sparky!uunet!world!mbg
- From: mbg@world.std.com (Megan B Gentry)
- Subject: Re: Micro PDP 11
- Message-ID: <BzzqFE.DoK@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Dec14.021941.676@lunatix.uucp> <BznHn7.A5F@world.std.com> <1992Dec28.180950.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 22:28:25 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
-
- >In article <BznHn7.A5F@world.std.com>, mbg@world.std.com (Megan B Gentry) writes:
- >> mfroedge@lunatix.uucp (Maxwell Froedge) writes:
- >...
- >> There are two things contributing to whether your
- >> system is 18-bit or 22-bit. First, the CPU. If you
- >> have a KDF11-B (quad-high module), you have 22-bit
- >> support on-board. If it is a KDF11-A (rev.c), you
- >> also have 22-bit support. KDF11-A (rev.a) is 18-bit
- >> only.
-
- >Bzzt, wrong. The rev c KDF11-A was the only 18 bit CPU in the 23s, despite
- >DEC propaganda of the time. ( "No, you have to pay $$$$ for a 23+ for that... ")
- >You will also have to chuck any 18-bit memory or controlers if you want more
- >than 128KW. Note, 128, not 124. You can have all 128KW in a Qbus.
-
- Sorry, I have a KDF11-A (rev.c) which has MUCH more than 128kw on it
- at home... The KDF11-A (rev.c) carried the extra four addressing
- lines out to the bus, where the rev.a had not. The rev.a could
- only address 18-bits because those addressing lines stopped on-board.
-
- (I seem to remember someone hacking a rev.a board so that the extra
- four lines were carried to the bus, but I don't remember who. I think
- the lines had to pass through inverters first.)
-
- Megan
-