> On May 24, 2016, at 9:49 PM, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote:
> 
> On 05/24/2016 12:17 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>> A couple of observations.
>> 
>> Taking the PDP-11 as a fairly typical example, the switches are "data" and 
>> "address".  While running, the data switches were visible to the software, 
>> and could do something if you wanted to (typically this wasn't done).
> Actually, all PDP-11s I used had one set of switches, that could be used for 
> address or data, as appropriate to the operation. 

Oops, of course, you're correct.

        paul


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