From: bqt@update.uu.se (Johnny Billquist)
Subject: [pups] DEC PRO or P/OS
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:18:10 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0311172316150.6789-100000@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031117210533.GA33626@freebie.xs4all.nl>
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 03:23:15PM -0500, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> > Hello from Gregg C Levine
> > Can any of you point me in the directions of a website that completely
> > discusses this operating system, PRO or P/OS? As I recall the DEC
> > Professional system was basically a shrunken PDP-11. Finding one of
> > course, would be a good thing.
>
> A Pro350 was an F11, a Pro380 a T11 (I hope I remember this correctly)
> CPU.
The 380 had a J11.
> I think you could also run RT-11 on them.
Correct. RT11 have support for the PRO, even if it isn't official.
> Some big VAX models
> had Pro's as console processors/systems. RD5x disk drives on the Pro's.
> And special I/O cards which only fit in Pros.
All I/O is specific for the PRO. They used a very different I/O-system
than other PDP-11s.
Johnny
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at update.uu.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-17 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-17 20:23 Gregg C Levine
2003-11-17 21:05 ` Wilko Bulte
2003-11-17 21:50 ` David Evans
2003-11-17 22:19 ` Wilko Bulte
2003-11-17 22:20 ` David Evans
2003-11-18 1:55 ` Gregg C Levine
2003-11-18 10:37 ` Johnny Billquist
2003-11-17 22:18 ` Johnny Billquist [this message]
2003-11-17 22:12 ` Johnny Billquist
2003-11-17 22:21 ` Gregg C Levine
2003-11-17 22:17 John Holden
2003-11-17 22:18 Fred N. van Kempen
2003-11-18 2:08 Fred N. van Kempen
2003-11-18 3:03 ` David Evans
2004-01-31 19:17 Tarik Isani
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=Pine.LNX.4.21.0311172316150.6789-100000@Tempo.Update.UU.SE \
--to=bqt@update.uu.se \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).