[HECnet] Assigned areas and unassigned areas

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Sun Jun 14 19:18:31 PDT 2015


On 2015-06-15 03:44, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 06/14/2015 09:40 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>> This is remarkably impressive for a dead protocol on dead computers :)
>>>
>>>     Dead?  Mine run great.
>>>
>>>     I just resurrected my PDP-11/05 today.  11/55 last week.
>>
>> Unfortunately, the 11/05 will not ever be able to run my TCP/IP.
>
>    True.  It's a bit, erm, limited.
>
>> However, the 11/55 could possibly stand a chance.
>
>    Huh?  Doesn't RSX11M-Plus require more than 18 bits' worth of RAM, and
> doesn't your IP stack require -Plus?

Yes on the second question, and sortof maybe not on the first one.
Officially M+ requires 22-bit addressing, but it can be generated for 
18-bit systems. But I have never tried it to see how it fares...

	Johnny

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