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- From: cyberman@exucom.com (Stephen R. Phillips)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
- Subject: Re: What is this thing???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.173738.10630@exucom.com>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 17:37:38 GMT
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- Thomas J. Trebisky (tom@afthree.as.arizona.edu) wrote:
-
- : At an auction recently, I purchased an interesting piece of equipment
- : that some Motorola expert may be able to identify for me. It is a big
- : card cage (takes two men to move) with about 20 slots holding cards roughly
- : 2 by 2 feet in size. Manufactured by Motorola as a "memory subsystem"
- : Slots are labeled (left to right):
-
- : F E D C B A 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 ACC -- ECC USER+IO USER+IO USER
-
- : Slots 9 thru 2 are occupied with RAM boards: MMS4311
- : each has 1Meg of RAM in 64k by 1 dynamics
- : each is 1/2 populated (could hold 2Meg)
- : (or maybe it is 2Meg and could be 1Meg)
-
- : ACC slot has a board with a 68A01 with RAM, ROM, and interface logic.
- : ECC slot has a MMS4330 board
- : USER+IO has a MMS3354 prototyping board
-
- : It also has a front panel with a hex keypad, Moto part number MMS3823.
-
- : Again, the crate and the MMSxxxx cards were made by Motorola.
-
- : Surely, all this RAM was not bank switched for the poor little 68A01.
- : What is this thing, anyone know?
- : It is definitely not a VME or Versabus crate.
-
- Probably not. My guess is that it uses the wonderful DAT chip.
- The DAT chip is a Dynamic Address Translation chip. Basically it
- is a MMU or memory managment unit. The memory is PAGED into 4k pages that
- can be mapped anywhere in 6800/01/09 memory. which is 64k. They must
- have the ROM copyable into RAM on bootstrap. Likely you are looking at an
- OS9 beast. You might post on comp.os.os9
-
- Cyberman - I loved to machines :)
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