what is a CXY08-M good for?

[Zane H. Healy]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Ethan Dicks wrote:

> I was curious about that... specifically, I caught that there's a
> DHU/DHV-compatibility setting, but I was curious how far back there's
> support for this board.  I'm sure it'll work with modernish versions
> of VMS, but what about PDP-11 operating systems?  (most specifically,
> I'd be thinking of RSTS and 2BSD).  Anyone have any experience with
> that?  (My own is with older products on older machines, but except
> for DZ11s and DLJ11Js, I think some of the older multi-serial
> interfaces are less easy to find these days).

Wasn't the CXY08-M used in the DECserver 550 (or whatever it was called)?  I
don't know if the OS's you mention support the board, but the DECserver that
used these had PDP-11/53 CPU's in them.  I had a couple of the DECserver's,
but sadly had to dump them years ago.  I kept a few of Serial boards and
cables, along with the other boards.

Zane