18 Sep
2001
18 Sep
'01
5:01 a.m.
Jonathan Engdahl wrote:
And, what I forgot to write is that the flash is slower anyway, so you
copy the
software from flash to *RAM anyway.
-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of emanuel stiebler
Jonathan Engdahl wrote:
sizes. Prices are
Very good point. I was thinking that it would be nice to have a machine that
was a PDP-11 as soon as you flipped on the power, but probably not worth the
cost and hassle of the flash. about $100 per meg. Something called "flash
DIMM" shows up on
Looking at this prices, what happened to the old 3.5" floppy drive ?
If you can start a complete/compressed linux/firewall from there, should
be enough to start an emulator.
And, BTW, not all of the pc motherboard chip sets supports FLASH DIMM
(any ?),
so you're stuck then with some motherboards. Didn't some of the VAXen boot their microcode
from a floppy?
yes
Also, that way you could have one microcode floppy for
each classic
architecture.
works only if you have the OS on the floppy too.
I think that my emulator idea can be made to work
under Win32.
Sorry, I missed that. What is so special about your idea ?
(No offense, just missed you posting I guess ;-))
It appears there are facilities allowing an
application
program to catch access violations.
Sure. But it is easier to check this yourself.
cheers