[Simh] Configuration limitations
Rich Alderson
simh at alderson.users.panix.com
Fri Apr 13 15:55:52 EDT 2018
> From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>
> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 02:24:41 +0200
> On 2018-04-12 23:49, Bob Supnik wrote:
>> Enforcing configuration restrictions (for example, no mixing of disks
>> and tapes on the same channel) is yet more work.
> Uh... Which should not be done to start with. From a hardware point of
> view it is perfectly legal to mix tapes and disks on the same massbus.
> Most OSes did not support that, but RSX-11M-PLUS actually do. It's
> called a mixed massbus.
Similarly for TOPS-20, although Tops-10 does have such a restriction.
Rich
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