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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