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From: leichter@yale-com.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: any info on the old PDT-11 machine??
Message-ID: <1621@yale-com.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 00:43:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 15 00:43:32 1983
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The PDT-11 was an LSI-11-based single-user machine meant for laboratory
applications.  It came with 64K memory - maximum the LSI-11 will address
and either DECtape II or RX01 floppies.  It is a bounded system:  The internal
bus is not accessible in any documented way; whatever you get, you keep.

If I remember right, the floppy version came in a standalone box, which the
DECtape version was built into a VT100 cabinet.  A version of RT-11 was the
only supported O/S.

The machine is small by today's standards, is slow, and has very slow periphs.
I have seen some nifty things done on it - mainly "very smart terminals" -
and people have run DECUS C under RT-11 successfully - but it isn't easy
(because of space/speed limitations).  BTW, I'd make sure that the special
RT-11 - special only in having special device drivers - came with the system;
I doubt you can get it anywhere any more.  (Unless, of course, you are willing
to start out with ROM ODT and "roll your own" from scratch.)
							-- Jerry
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