[HECnet] PDXVAX - 40MB Memory - VAXstation 4000/VLC?

From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> The TSTSET is both a test, and a write. So it will do both. I can't imagine that WRTLCK was to be used in combination with TSTSET. I was picturing TSTSET for testing/acquiring a spinlock, and WRTLCK for releasing it, but obviously other combinations could work too. You are thinking too complex. A Qbus memory is always multiported. It's just a slave on the bus. Any master can access it. So it is multiported. Well OK I guess I meant multiported as it, multiple separate Q-bus interfaces so it can be present on otherwise disjoint Q-bi. The problem is that all CPUs think they are bus masters, and all try to control the grant lines, which they cannot. A little snippage would fix that part, but the problem is that CPUs won't normally try to negotiate for bus mastership. So that's what I meant by that -- CPU starts a bus cycle w/o warning, interface becomes bus master on the shared Q-bus (where the memory lives) and *then* passes the bus cycle through, hopefully before the CPU gets tired of waiting. Wasn't it the 11/03 CPU where you could disable this by a jumper? Sounds vaguely familiar. 11/20 too? Or was it the 11/05? Unless the KXJ11 have some other funny stuff, such as local memory on the card... Beats me, I've never even seen a KXJ -- sounds like potential fun though. OK I'll try to control myself now -- PDP-11 stuff probably isn't that interesting to most HECnet people. John Wilson D Bit