[HECnet] Which is THE dec printer?

[John Wilson]

Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:52:08 -0500

The DHV11 has a pair of 8051s on it.   The DH11 is several boards full
of logic.   It has buffering and DMA capability to offload the host
system...it needs much less hand-holding than the DZ11.

For *output*.   They're all basically identical for input, and that's where
you'd actually need help (since you could lose data -- on output you just
might get behind).   Offloading input processing would need the mux to be
close personal friends with the TTY driver in each OS, so I see why it
didn't happen, but it would have been *much* more useful.

John Wilson
D Bit