anneser@pwa-b.UUCP (Dean Anneser) (08/05/87)
Has anyone out there written a driver and load utility under VAX/ELN for a uVAX-II to interface with DEC's KXT11-CA or KXJ11-CA peripheral processors, which will: 1) allow for a MicroPower/Pascal generated runnable image for the peri- pheral to be downloaded from the VAX/ELN host system "through" the ELN system, to the KXJ's physically plugged into the ELN system (this would be sort of similar to the KUI utility running under RT-11 on PDP-11's). host VAX/VMS VAX/ELN system ------------ -------------- KXJ task image --------------- K K / X X /-------> J J 1 1 1 1 (1) (2) 2) allow for reads/writes between the ELN application on the VAX and a MicroPower Pascal application on the KXJ11 via the dual ported memory on the KXJ11. This appears to be a hole in DEC's real-time strategy. They have targeted ELN as being their real-time system for the VAX's, and peripheral processors (KXT11-CA's and KXJ11-CA's) for the real-time market with PDP-11's, however, have yet to provide a software interface for peripheral processors plugged into a QBus uVAX running an ELN application. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Dean W. Anneser Pratt & Whitney Aircraft East Hartford, CT 06108 {philabs,utah-gr}!pwa-b!anneser -- Dean W. Anneser Pratt & Whitney Aircraft East Hartford, CT 06108 {philabs,utah-gr}!pwa-b!anneser