[Info-vax] OT: obscure PDP11 OSes (even more dinosaury)
William Pechter
pechter at S20.pechter.dyndns.org
Wed Jun 24 01:21:11 EDT 2015
In article <cuqc43F646kU1 at mid.individual.net>,
Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>In article <mm73bn$3fv$1 at pechter.eternal-september.org>,
> pechter at S20.pechter.dyndns.org (William Pechter) writes:
>> In article <mm55qv$fff$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>>> On 2015-06-20 20:29:30 +0000, Hans Vlems said:
>>>>
>>>>> My question was whether the 11/20 had support for 18 bit addresses. I
>>>>> thought that the 11/20 was the only model limited to a 2^16 address
>>>>> space.
>>>>
>>>> The <http://gunkies.org/wiki/PDP-11> and
>>>> <http://hampage.hu/pdp-11/main.html> pages indicate not; that there were
>>>> other boxes that used 16 bits of the 18 bit UNIBUS.
>>>>
>>>> From the Things DECfolks Can't Unsee department: the new Dunkin Donuts
>>>> coffee shop color scheme looks like that of a PDP-11.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>The first PDP-11 I used was an 11/40. I don't think it had more than 16
>>>bits of address space. Could be wrong. I seem to recall that the 11/40
>>>could run RSTS, but the 11/20 could not. Top of the line at that time
>>>was the PDP-11/45.
>>
>> There was the ability to have 128kw in an 11/40. (KT11-D memory management
>> option...)
>>
>> The 11/04/5/10 and the 11/03 were limited to 32kw (64kb).
>>
>
>And 11/02.
>
>bill
>
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Yup. The LSI-11/02 was the same chip as the 11/03 so I didn't mention it
twice.
Kind of like the 11/35 and 11/40 were the same cpu type... just like the
11/45 and 11/50 and 11/55 were all the same cpu type (depending upon early
or late revisions.
Bill
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