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On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 22:28:19 +0000 in alt.folklore.computers, Elliott systems, so maybe the DH drivers were more functional on that system. ISTM 11D was designed for the larger systems, while 11M was...
Finally they adopted a carrot to go with the stick, and gave me an 11-73 to edit and buttemble on. All to myself.
I'll agree with most of that. VTEDIT was ok under RSTS, but neither use of the DH-11 silo, and never did DMA out. There was almost no point, it took so many instructions to set up and complete the DMA, you were better off taking the interrupts. 11-M was really good at doing that, it cost you next to nothing if you stayed up at $INTSAV. There was very little you could say that was nice about M's TTDRV. It had to be a complex animal, and it sure was. I remember a name on the endless patches for it - "Mark Pettingell" If you are still around Mark, I can distinctly remember not wanting your job ;-) That's going back into hazy memory land. I could never see any value in an 11-44. I was doing stand-alone systems and butchering disk drivers on 11-73s and getting far more out of them for much less than half the price. I do remember the original MicroVax II whooping the pants off the 750 though.
11-M was Dave Cutler's answer to 11-D running away with memory. It was superficially similar on...
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