Hello from Gregg C Levine
Massive brain malfunction there, I meant, Caldera, or whoever they are, in
that comment.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregg C Levine" <hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net>
To: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 9:03 PM
Subject: RE: Sigh, will DSSI disks *ever* work with NetBSD?


Hello from Gregg C Levine
<Deactivates his lurker mode> I hate to be a critic, but as it happens
the SIMH emulator does just that, for both VAX, and the PDP11 collection
of systems. And yes, we should gather our wits, and persuade the right
people to release the DSSI code under the appropriate license. Far as I
am concerned, Calder should just place into the public domain, and
forget about managing it. You, ah, might be able to gain support via the
PUPS list, on that site, (Which I can't remember.). And yes, I think
that disk drive controller ran via the concept of firmware. I know one
person, for the PDP-11, did do something of a sort.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-vax-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-vax-owner@netbsd.org] On
Behalf
> Of Carl Lowenstein
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 3:31 PM
> To: port-vax@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Sigh, will DSSI disks *ever* work with NetBSD?
>
> > Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:25:24 -0500
> > Subject: Re: Sigh, will DSSI disks *ever* work with NetBSD?
> > From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
> > To: port-vax@netbsd.org
> >
> > On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 01:51 AM, you wrote:
> > >> FWIW, I have the RQDX3 firmware source code + the MSCP and UQSSP
> > >> specification. :)  It might not be as non-trivial as you think.
> >
> >    The RQDX3 uses a T-11, right?  Is that firmware done in assembler
or
> > a higher-level language?  (I'd be surprised if it weren't assembler
but
> > I suppose there's no guarantee)
>
> Well, you could run a PDP11 simulator on some readily
> available x86 chip and run the T11 code on that.  Ugh.
> I'll have to dig a RQDX3 out of the old-boards box and
> look for the presence of magic ASICs.
>
>     carl
> --
>     carl lowenstein         marine physical lab     u.c. san diego
>                                                  clowenst@ucsd.edu