Much swearing - was Re: Do-It-Yourself PDP-11 help!

Pete Turnbull pete at dunnington.u-net.com
Thu Feb 17 08:38:11 CST 2005


On Feb 17 2005,  9:05, Paul Koning wrote:
> >>>>> "Pete" == Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.u-net.com> writes:
>
>  Pete> You're assuming the CPU still provides termination at its end.
>  Pete> Without that, the lines will be floating.
>
> True, but doesn't the CPU always terminate everything, since it's
> intended to live at one end of the bus?

Yes, unless it has a broken terminator resistor pack, which is where
this subthread started :-)

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
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						University of York



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