[Simh] RT-11 Storage Strategy

Will Senn will.senn at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 09:50:06 EST 2016



On 2/17/16 5:38 AM, Timothe Litt wrote:
> .
>
> I put accurate timing options into card and printer devices a while
> back, and the effect is dramatic.
> 1,000 LPM from a printer is noisy and you see the paper flying by.  But
> some quick math reminds
> us that a typical 55 line page means 18 pages/min, so your 100 page
> listing takes about 5 1/2 minutes
> to print.  If you're the first job in a queue.
>
>
Timothe,

As far as I can tell, the PDP-11 I'm running is as fast as the Macbook 
Pro I'm running it on and I like it that way :). 5 1/2 minutes for a 
listing? Ouch.

Will


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