6 Sep
2022
6 Sep
'22
11:23 p.m.
On 2022-09-06 21:59, Robert Armstrong wrote:
The DEUNA/DELUA is possible to stick in there. Jonny Eriksson was
working on support, but it was more than a memory limitation issue. The
DEUNA/DELUA was never design with the 18-bit transfers in mind. But as
far as I know, he got IP and UDP running over ethernet on a KS with Tops-10.
So no just
sticking a DEUNA board set in that BA11-K?
It's a long story. The hardware (a DEUNA in the 2020 UBA/UNIBUS box) will work,
but the software never supported it. It was mostly a memory issue. The KS10 is limited
to 512KW of physical memory and space is very tight on the 2020. Supposedly Mark Crispin had Ethernet working with
TOPS20 on his 2020, but that was never released as a product and the status of that
software today is, I think, unknown.
That is something I don't think I ever heard. But maybe I just missed
it. But I seem to remember that MRC worked on Phase IV for KS, and got
that working. But not using ethernet as far as I know. But I really
should try to find where that was discussed. Should be available online
somewhere...
Johnny
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