[Simh] T-11 RT-11 box from the design contest?

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello!
Would it help I said, "So am I."? This is something I am quite curious about
as yourself.  I actually have someplace a drive that was once installed in a
PC/XT. While it'll never be used as such despite the fact I have the
motherboard for the pest, I would rather dedicate it (the drive) to this
device.

Of course given that there are scads of cheap IDE drives and even CF cards
out there, anything is possible. (There's a Silicon Valley store that has
bins full of small IDE drives out there.)
--
Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net
"The Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
  


> -----Original Message-----
> From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com
[mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On
> Behalf Of Ethan Dicks
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 12:50 PM
> To: simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: Re: [Simh] T-11 RT-11 box from the design contest?
> 
> On 6/19/07, Tim  Shoppa <tshoppa at wmata.com> wrote:
> > Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > > effectively leaving RT-11 as the only option...
> >
> > The modifications necessary to make RT-11 4.0 run on the Falcon
> > are known as "FART-11" and are in the DECUS library as 11-605.
> 
> Good to know.  Thanks.
> 
> > While a T-11 is in the Falcon, there would presumably still be some
> > further customizations necessary for block device drivers.
> 
> Given the nature of previous Spare Time Gizmos products, I'd expect
> that any T-11 board wouldn't have a traditional DEC bus, but would
> likely have either an ATA (IDE) interface or just a CF socket for
> block devices.  The next requirement would be a new RT-11 driver to
> use said IDE/CF interface, as was done for the SBC-6120.
> 
> > I won't advocate breaking licensing agreements but it wouldn't
> > be hard for anyone to download RT-11 4.0, apply the patches,
> > and make a Falcon-ready version.
> 
> Not hard, but again, not necessarily what you want to build a business
> plan around.
> 
> > And there are so many RQDX3's out there I can't see any ethical
> > problems in harvesting T11's from them.
> 
> The ethicality of harvesting T-11s from existing boards wasn't really
> where I was going - it was more the case of asking one's self, "if I
> make 100 boards, will my 100 customers be able to find T-11 chips or
> want me to find them for them?"
> 
> > It's certain that the number
> > of RQDX3's outnumbers the remaining working MFM hard drives :-).
> > (Heck, I think that statement may have been true in 1990!)
> 
> Heh... I've replaced my share of drives hung off of RQDX3s.
> 
> I'm still curious about Bob's T-11 project, though.
> 
> -ethan