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My last post was about playing with the GPIB support in MINC and my Philips PM6666. A very capable and unassuming counter it doesn t take up a lot of space, it makes no noise, it doesn t get hot or consume lots of power. I don t worry about leaving it on when I m not there [ ]
The latest but probably greatest addition to the MINC support is the IBV11 and peripheral hardware that allows you to hook up to a GPIB/HPIB/IEEE-488 bus. In case you missed it, I ve added new page in the MINC hierarchy with all the details. There s something like three major eras in the evolution of GPIB-enabled instruments [ ]
If like me you ve never really taken the time to take a look at the details and internals of AI in its current form of neural networks and machine learning, now is your chance because someone has written just that in MACRO11!. Check out Damien Boureille s Github page : https://github.com/dbrll/ATTN-11, and before you go there, [ ]
One of the left over issues for MINC was how the install disks set up for booting a MINC system including setting up the VM.SYS driver to cache the MINC BASIC software so that it would load faster after a round trip to the (modified) RT utilities like PIP and MEDIT. In short, the [ ]
Already a while ago 2.11BSD patch #499 was released as cleanup and preparation for the release of a new master distribution as patch #500. It is by far the biggest patch in the history of 2.11BSD looking at the file size alone, and that s not even considering that the actual patch is compressed. [ ]
Today the long awaited image of the UNIX V4 tape from University of Utah was published. And it actually contained Unix that must ve been such a relief. Anyway, I had to try it on PDP2011. Yes, it works. There s some trickery involved in converting the tape image to a bootable RK image, and that [ ]
Finally after more than two and a half years I managed to convince myself it s time for a new release! There s always another thing to fix, another thing to add I should really get better at publishing my work. Anyway, here it is. Head over to the download page after you finish reading. New [ ]
End 2022 I added the logic for the IBV11 the GPIB interface in the MINC. But only the basic logic necessary to pass the VIBB test, and only really for the bragging rights, to be able to say that my MINC passed the chains on the XXDP22 and XXDP25 packs. After all, I didn t [ ]
One of the things that has been on my list of things to do is to refresh my RSX-11M-Plus image. Time to catch up and test if the new ENC28J60 works as well with RSX as with 2.11BSD! The previous image that I was using up to now the one that s in the setup [ ]
Just over a year ago I started work on adding support for the enc28j60 ethernet chip as an alternative for the enc424j600. Since Digilent stopped selling the PMODNIC100, boards with the enc424j600 became somewhat difficult to find not impossible maybe, and also the bigger enc624j600 version of the chip can be used with [ ]