DEC "Junk" rescued
Paul Koning
pkoning at equallogic.com
Wed Nov 16 09:59:49 CST 2005
>>>>> "Allison" == Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> writes:
Allison> F11 machines are a good workhorse 11s. As far as my data
Allison> goes all of the chip (F11 and J11) cpus on unibus are faster
Allison> by some amount as there isn't the multiplxed address/data
Allison> bus transaction. Though I believe the real reason was to
Allison> preserve the unibus IO investment and generally higher IO
Allison> transaction rate that unibus devices enjoyed.
I thought it was the other way around, because Qbus has burst mode DMA
which Unibus does not have. But I don't remember specific data.
paul
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