Re: UNIBUS powoer on/off spec

2022-04-06 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 4/6/22 08:27, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: That's a classic example of a rule invented by people who can't think. In fact, HTTP is perfectly fine for sites that arenot conducting web-based business activity. Blogs are a good example, and I know at least one that runs HTTP for the

Re: UNIBUS powoer on/off spec

2022-04-06 Thread Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
Noel Chiappa wrote: > I have been told that at one point Google was 'downgrading' results > that used plain HTTP, instead of HTTPS, because they were trying to > push people to switch to HTTPS (this was when everyone was > hyperventilating over the Snowden revelations). Given the > near-ubiquitous

Re: UNIBUS powoer on/off spec

2022-04-06 Thread Toby Thain via cctalk
On 2022-04-06 9:27 a.m., Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: On Apr 6, 2022, at 9:20 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: ... I have been told that at one point Google was 'downgrading' results that used plain HTTP, instead of HTTPS, because they were trying to push people to switch to HTTPS (this

Re: UNIBUS powoer on/off spec

2022-04-06 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Apr 6, 2022, at 9:20 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk > wrote: > > ... > I have been told that at one point Google was 'downgrading' results that used > plain HTTP, instead of HTTPS, because they were trying to push people to > switch to HTTPS (this was when everyone was hyperventilating

RE: UNIBUS powoer on/off spec

2022-04-06 Thread pbirkel--- via cctalk
Proc IEEE thought that was appropriate :->. -Original Message- From: cctalk On Behalf Of Noel Chiappa via cctalk Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 5:49 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Cc: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: UNIBUS powoer on/off spec > From: Paul Koning > You m

Re: UNIBUS powoer on/off spec

2022-04-06 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> the later "pdp11 bus hanbook" (which, as mentioned, does not seem to be > online yet, alas) Arck, I'm a moron; Paul has pointed out to me that this is, in fact, online at Bitsavers: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/handbooks/PDP11_BusHandbook1979.pdf It didn't show up in a

Re: UNIBUS powoer on/off spec

2022-04-05 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Paul Koning > You might give a precise source citation on that page. Done: https://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=UNIBUS_Initialization=6842=25463=25451 Don't complain to me if the publication data is skimpy; that's all that's in it! (I mean, we all know that DEC is in

Re: UNIBUS powoer on/off spec

2022-04-05 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
Very impressive detail. You might give a precise source citation on that page. paul > On Apr 5, 2022, at 8:07 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk > wrote: > > So, I looked at the early editions of the "pdp11 peripherals hanbook", which > have good, detailed discussions of UNIBUS operations

UNIBUS powoer on/off spec

2022-04-05 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So, I looked at the early editions of the "pdp11 peripherals hanbook", which have good, detailed discussions of UNIBUS operations (at the back; chapter 5, "UNIBUS Theory and Operation", in the 1976 edition), but in contrast to the level of detail given for master/slave operations, and bus requests