[Info-vax] VMS 5.0

[Bob Koehler]

In article <j9c0g9$fr2$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:

> Just read the manual for the VAX-11/780, by the way. standalone backup 
> for that machine is 5 8" floppies. Reading through it, it appears to 
> take about 10 minutes to boot the standalone backup...

   The serial port interface to the 8" floppy (1 word programmed I/O, I
   think) was much faster than the interface to TU58.  11/750 was a
   downgrade from 11/780 in more ways than one.