[Info-vax] VMS 5.0

[Bob Eager]

On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:52:32 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> 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... ;-)

I know. Just repeating what the book says!

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