[Info-vax] VMS 5.0

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-11-09 17.43, Bob Eager wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:27:28 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
>> On 2011-11-09 15.37, Bob Koehler wrote:
>>> In article<j9c95r$if5$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny
>>> Billquist<bqt at softjar.se>   writes:
>>>>
>>>> Well, the RX01 don't have a serial interface, to start with. :-)
>>>
>>>      No, but the RX01 was on the LSI-11, and the interface to the rest
>>>      of the VAX was supposed to be a serial connection.
>>
>> Ah! Good point. I actually don't know exactly how the interface between
>> the LSI-11 and the VAX-11/780 looked like. (At the physical level that
>> is. I know of the processor registers...)
>
> Serial, but eight bits wide. Programmed I/O.

You know, "serial, but eight bits wide" is something people normally 
call parallel... ;-)

	Johnny