PDP-10s

[Brad Parker]

Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
>An interesting thought, but weren't the RP disks formatted to 18-bit
>words when used on 36-bit hosts?  If one kludged up an interface with
>some smarts, perhaps one could format a SCSI disk to something other
>than 512 8-bit-bytes per sector.  The RP20(?) emulator could then
>request a larger block, then repackage it and feed it up to the KS10
>as 36-bit words.

That's the idea.  As I recall Eric Smith understood this - we emailed
once and he mentioned supporting a 10 on unibus.  I don't remember the
details but I'm sure he know.  (I'll dredge up the email) 

-brad

>(who doesn't own any 36-bit hardware, but enjoys running TOPS-20 on klh10)

always the difficult one, I've been enjoying ITS on klh10 :-)