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From: jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: DECSYSTEM 20
Message-ID: <612@daitc.daitc.mil>
Date: 28 Jul 89 03:50:08 GMT
References: <11475@xenna.Encore.COM>
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Reply-To: jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger)
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In-reply-to: cook@pinocchio.Encore.COM (Dale C. Cook)

In article <11475@xenna.Encore.COM>, cook@pinocchio (Dale C. Cook) writes:
>The 11 didn't really have a great deal to do while timesharing was
>going on.  It handled unit record peripherals (remember the card
>reader/punch?  :-) and ran the console program that handled booting.
>Its primary use was running the diagnostic set

I thought it handled terminal i/o, too, offloaded character
interrupts, handled handshaking, may have done ^u and ^w.  No?

-- Jon
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