Subject: Status?
To: None <port-pdp10@netbsd.org>
From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla@jarai.org>
List: port-pdp10
Date: 06/07/2002 14:53:56
From the discussion on port-vax at the start of March....

Anders Magnusson wrote:
> ??? Wrote:

> > The machine only had 18 bit pointers. It is a little light in terms of
> > real memory space -- only about a megabyte in a full Moby.
> >
> > Extended PDP-10 architectures have been built -- the failed DEC
> > Jupiter project and of course the TOAD-1.
>
> That's not entirely true. The KL10-E (Used in 2060/2065 IIRC, someone may
> correct me) had extended mode addressing which gave you a virtual
> address space of 30 bits (but I think only 23 bits were used).
> It should be quite possible to memory-wise to get NetBSD to run on
> such machine, but I think the amount of work to make it run would
> not be negligable :-)

Out of curiousity, which PDP-10 models will be able to theoretically
support with the NetBSD/pdp10 port?

-brian.