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From: Azog-Thoth@cup.portal.com (William Thomas Daugustine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Pro-350 questions
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Date: 12 Apr 90 23:11:22 GMT
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Ill soon be reciving a DEC Pro-350 machine as part of a trade deal, 
and want to get a general idea of some things so I wont be totally
lost when I do finally get it!

My friend, who is trading the Pro-350 with me, says that its basiclly
a PDP-11 in a different box (excluding certian things, such as tape
drives?). If this is true, will I be able to run PDP-11 software on 
it?

Right now, the machine is running Venix. A version of Unix? How close 
is it? Muli-user and -processing? He has other OS's for it, which Ill
be getting, one is RT-11, and the other is POS (Professional OS). Im
not familiar with RT-11, altho I do know that this is one of the OS's
of the PDP-11 family. What is POS?

Also, it has a 5meg hard drive (ST-506). Can I upgrade this to a
larger drive? The ST-225 etc, are ST-506 compatable, but will
it be able to support larger drives?

And finally, not a big concern. He mentioned hi-res graphics. Just
for comparasion sakes (no flames on this please!) which would iut
be closer to? CGA, EGA or VGA?

Many thanx on any info you can give me. Other such things that I havent
listed here (tape drives, RAM, comm ports) will help

Billy D'Augustine
Azog-Thoth@cup.portal.com