> On Jan 29, 2018, at 6:03 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> ...
>> (actually, this should work with Q18 QBUS systems as well)
>
> Goodness, never thought of that. Hmmm.. it's probably enough hassle to mod
> the software (who ever heard of a 'QBUS map' on a QBUS -11 - but you'd need
>
> From: David Bridgham
> Our plan is to produce a Unibus board as well, we just chose the QBUS
> first.
For no particularly strong reasons; I had working QBUS machines, and
prototyping cards, etc, etc.
> (actually, this should work with Q18 QBUS systems as well)
Goodness, never
> That sounds pretty awesome. Good job there!
Thanks. Feeling good today after a bit of frustration with development
not going faster.
> Do you know how hard it would be to take this design and make a UNIBUS
> version? I have an 11/34 languishing under the bench in my hardware
> lab and one o
> On Jan 29, 2018, at 1:57 PM, Phil Blundell via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2018-01-29 at 16:06 -0500, David Bridgham via cctalk wrote:
>> For those of you who are following along with our QSIC project, today
>> we
>> booted v6 Unix successfully for the first time. We'd first tried
>> this a
On Mon, 2018-01-29 at 16:06 -0500, David Bridgham via cctalk wrote:
> For those of you who are following along with our QSIC project, today
> we
> booted v6 Unix successfully for the first time. We'd first tried
> this a
> week or two back but discovered that Unix does use partial block
> reads
>
> FWIW, so does RT11, and in the case of writes, it requires the rest of the
> block to be zero-filled. Not everything depends on this, but some parts do;
> I think Fortran is one.
I did implement that too. Unix doesn't need it but I had to fill the
block with something and it wasn't that har
> On Jan 29, 2018, at 4:06 PM, David Bridgham via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> For those of you who are following along with our QSIC project, today we
> booted v6 Unix successfully for the first time. We'd first tried this a
> week or two back but discovered that Unix does use partial block reads
> a
> From: David Bridgham
> today we booted v6 Unix successfully for the first time.
As in, the OS image was loaded from the SD card, then started up using only
the SD card for 'disk'. So this is a pretty major milestone. It's been a long
road (I just looked, and we started on this in the su
For those of you who are following along with our QSIC project, today we
booted v6 Unix successfully for the first time. We'd first tried this a
week or two back but discovered that Unix does use partial block reads
and writes after all and I hadn't implemented those yet. We're running
this on an
