Yay, partial success!

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Paul Koning wrote:

> >>>>> "Vintage" == Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> writes:
>
>  Vintage> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
>  >> No, because D2 means the microcode isn't running.  It turns out
>  >> that all the information on the net and in the KDJ11-A manual is
>  >> *wrong*.  D3 means there is a memory fault, D4 means there is an
>  >> SLU fault.  My 512kw board is broken.  I only have 32kw to play
>  >> with, but it's enough to boot RT-11!
>
>  Vintage> Are you sure?  It sounds like you against the world, and
>  Vintage> generally speaking, the world usually wins ;)
>
> RT (at least the older releases, for example RT SJ V2) will run just
> fine in 8 kwords...  So Gordon has plenty of memory to play with.

But I'm talking about the LED.  He's convinced that the DEC manual is
wrong with regards to the D3 LED, which I find a little hard to swallow.

It would be great if there was a simple memory test he could poke in
through ODT to test the memory and see if it does crap out above 32K.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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