Re: What Makes a PDP-11/35 or 40 Tick?

2019-06-12 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Liam Proven > This is what makes a PDP-11/35 or PDP-11/40 tick. It turns out to be > 441 ICs. I wondered if it was fair to list the DEC 23B00A2, etc that hold the ucode as separate parts; they might have been a bunch of 256x4 PROMs, and the separate part numbers were just for

Re: What Makes a PDP-11/35 or 40 Tick?

2019-06-12 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 01:42, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > IFF your old post had a solution! (rather than being an unresolved > query) https://xkcd.com/979/ There are a couple of things now where I know that if I try to find sources, I'll find myself. The details of how id Software's game

Re: What Makes a PDP-11/35 or 40 Tick?

2019-06-12 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 23:23, ben via cctalk wrote: > > As froghorn leghorn once said. "That was a Joke son" ... Foghorn. Because of his loud voice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foghorn_Leghorn A foghorn is a big loud, well, horn... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foghorn And a Leghorn is a ki

Re: What Makes a PDP-11/35 or 40 Tick?

2019-06-11 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019, Ian McLaughlin via cctalk wrote: Almost as bad as desperately looking for a fix for something, and coming across your own posting from 15 years ago with the solution :) IFF your old post had a solution! (rather than being an unresolved query) A related anecdote (that m

Re: What Makes a PDP-11/35 or 40 Tick?

2019-06-11 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 2:13 PM ben wrote: > On 6/11/2019 2:55 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: > > > > > There are no banner ads on ycombinator, nor on Seth's site. I suspect > > you have malware somewhere in your system or on your network. > > As froghorn leghorn once said. "That was a Joke son" ... >

Re: What Makes a PDP-11/35 or 40 Tick?

2019-06-11 Thread ben via cctalk
On 6/11/2019 2:55 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: There are no banner ads on ycombinator, nor on Seth's site.  I suspect you have malware somewhere in your system or on your network. As froghorn leghorn once said. "That was a Joke son" ... - Josh I'll look at that site later, as finding any kind

Re: What Makes a PDP-11/35 or 40 Tick?

2019-06-11 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 1:48 PM ben via cctalk wrote: > On 6/11/2019 11:11 AM, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019, at 9:22 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > >> On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 18:15, Seth Morabito via cctalk > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Oops! Clearly a boneheaded mistak

Re: What Makes a PDP-11/35 or 40 Tick?

2019-06-11 Thread ben via cctalk
On 6/11/2019 11:11 AM, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2019, at 9:22 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 18:15, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote: Oops! Clearly a boneheaded mistake on my part. Time to fix that ancient post of mine... Ancient? It was on HN

Re: What Makes a PDP-11/35 or 40 Tick?

2019-06-11 Thread Ian McLaughlin via cctalk
> On Jun 11, 2019, at 10:11 AM, Seth Morabito via cctalk > wrote: > > It's not my fault they found a blog post I made in 2012 yesterday! :^) Almost as bad as desperately looking for a fix for something, and coming across your own posting from 15 years ago with the solution :) Ian

Re: What Makes a PDP-11/35 or 40 Tick?

2019-06-11 Thread Seth Morabito via cctalk
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019, at 9:22 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 18:15, Seth Morabito via cctalk > wrote: > > > > Oops! Clearly a boneheaded mistake on my part. Time to fix that ancient > > post of mine... > > Ancient? It was on HN yesterday! > > https://news.ycombinator

Re: What Makes a PDP-11/35 or 40 Tick?

2019-06-11 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 06/11/2019 06:33 AM, Paul Birkel via cctalk wrote: I wonder what the unlisted 20 ICs are for, and what they are? I think the 23B are microcode ROMS, and the 441 seems to be clerical error. Jon

Re: What Makes a PDP-11/35 or 40 Tick?

2019-06-11 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 18:15, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote: > > Oops! Clearly a boneheaded mistake on my part. Time to fix that ancient post > of mine... Ancient? It was on HN yesterday! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20137134 -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Emai

Re: What Makes a PDP-11/35 or 40 Tick?

2019-06-11 Thread Seth Morabito via cctalk
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019, at 4:33 AM, Paul Birkel via cctalk wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Liam Proven > >via cctalk > > > >Found on Hackernews but by our very own Seth Morabito... > > > >"This is what makes a PDP-11/35 or PD

RE: What Makes a PDP-11/35 or 40 Tick?

2019-06-11 Thread Paul Birkel via cctalk
>-Original Message- >From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Liam Proven >via cctalk >Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 7:06 AM >To: Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts >Subject: What Makes a PDP-11/35 or 40 Tick? > >Found on Hackernews but by our very own Seth Mor