perm filename PDP11[DOC,TOB]1 blob sn#028319 filedate 1973-03-02 generic text, type T, neo UTF8
00100	PDP 11/45 CONFIGURATION 
00200	
00300	11/45 CC	MINIMUM CPU CONFIGURATION
00400			16K CORE W/PARITY, FLEXOWRITER		$26,950
00500	
00600	KT11-C		MEMORY MANAGEMENT			$3,900
00700	
00800	FP11-B		FLOATING POINT BOX			$4,900
00900	
01000	KW11-P		REAL TIME CLOCK				$600
01100	
01200	
01300	10% DISCOUNT TO STANFORD
     

01200	???		PROGRAMMABLE STACK
01300	
01400	
01500	M792		CUSTOMIZED BOOTSTRAP LOADER (ROM)	$300
01600	
01700	DL-10		PDP-10 MEMORY BUS TO UNIBUS
01800	
01900	EXTRA MOS FROM INTEL .84 CENTS/BIT
02000	USE AS TV MEMORY 64K BY 18 BITS				$10,000
02100	CONFIGURE THIS AS TV BUFFER AND RANDOM
02200	ACCESS, 4 WDS WIDE FOR TV, 4 WAY SELECTOR
02300	FOR RANDOM ACCESS, POSSIBLE ERROR CORRECTION
02400	(72 BITS FOR 64 BIT SINGLE ERROR CORRECTION)
02500	INTERFACE: 2 WAY SELECTOR TV OR PDP-11.
02600	
02700	POSSIBLE HOME-BREW MAP (TABLE LOOKUP)
02800	ASSIGN I/O ADDRESSES TO LOAD THROUGH
02900	UNIBUS.  128 WDS BY 16 BITS AT 10 CENTS/BIT		$200 +DESIGN+FABRICATION
02950	NOT SERIOUS CANDIDATE
     

00005	KEN STIKOWSKI  216-368-2818  CASE
00052	
00100	1.  RELIABILITY OF MOS MEMORY
00200	CASE HAS HAD BIG PROBLEMS WITH MOS (KEN STIKOWSKI).
00300	SOME DIPS WERE CHANGED.  PROBLEMS REMAINING SEEM TO
00400	BE NOISE-RELATED, COMING WHEN DISK TRANSFERS, ETC
00500	ARE GOING ON. 
00600	2.  STIKOWSKI LIKES THE ASSEMBLER.
00700	DEBUGGER IS OCTAL
00800	3.  MEMORY SEGMENTATION IS ALMOST UNUSABLE.
00900	AT PAGE FAULTS, THE PC AND OTHER REGISTERS
01000	MAY BE CHANGED BY AUTO-INCREMENTS AND LOOKAHEAD.
01100	THEY MUST BE RECONSTRUCTED LABORIOUSLY BY SOFTWARE.
01200	IF WE DO NOT DO DEMAND PAGING, WE MAY GET BY USING
01300	IT AS AN EXPENSIVE MAP.
01400	4.  ONLY 8 OF THE 16 PAGES ARE USABLE.  THE DATA
01500	PAGES ARE NOT USABLE BECAUSE THE MARK INSTRUCTION
01600	MAY GO ON THE PDL.  ONLY KERNEL AND USER MODES ARE
01700	USABLE, ACCORDING TO LYNCH AT CASE.
01800	5.  SOFTWARE IS STANDARD 11/20 WHICH DOES NOT SUPPORT MAPPING OR USE
01900	MORE THATN 65K.
02000	6.  FORTRAN IS INTERPRETIVE-DOES NOT PUT OUT MACHINE CODE.
02100	7.  MANY PEOLE WRITING PDP-11 SOFTWARE.
     

00100	1. CORE 850 NSEC CYCLE TIME
00200	16K INTERLEAVED, EFFECTIVE TIME 650 NSEC