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It plugs into a modified [[Modified UNIBUS Device|MUD]] [[backplane]], either the the [[DD11-C backplane|DD11-C]] or [[DD11-D backplane]]s, or the special [[DD11-P backplane]] of the [[PDP-11/34]].
 
It plugs into a modified [[Modified UNIBUS Device|MUD]] [[backplane]], either the the [[DD11-C backplane|DD11-C]] or [[DD11-D backplane]]s, or the special [[DD11-P backplane]] of the [[PDP-11/34]].
  
It supported the [[KY11-LA Operator's Console]] and the [[KY11-LB Programmer's Console]], including the latter's maintenance functionality which allowed the CPU's microcode to be [[single-step]]ped.
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It supported the [[KY11-LA Operator's Console]] and the [[KY11-LB Programmer's Console]], including the latter's maintenance functionality which allowed the CPU's microcode to be [[single-step]]ped. The KD11-D uses the same [[KY11 to CPU interface]] as the other machines that use them.
  
 
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* [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/1104/MP00019_1104_EngrDrws_Feb78.pdf PDP-11/04 engineering drawings] - Contains KD11-D Field Maintenance Print Set (MP00020) on pp. 167-276 (includes complete PROM dumps)
 
* [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/1104/MP00019_1104_EngrDrws_Feb78.pdf PDP-11/04 engineering drawings] - Contains KD11-D Field Maintenance Print Set (MP00020) on pp. 167-276 (includes complete PROM dumps)
  
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Revision as of 14:19, 27 February 2022

A KD11-D card.

The KD11-D PDP-11 CPU of the PDP-11/04 was a micro-programmed processor (making heavy use of PROMs). It was contained on single hex card (the M7263), the first PDP-11 CPU to be built on a single card.

Like other early, low-cost PDP-11s, it did not support either memory management of any kind, or hardware floating point, EIS instructions, or the various instructions added to the PDP-11 instruction set (XOR, SOB, SXT and MARK).

There is a lack of clarity over the RTT instruction; the pdp11 04/05/10/35/40/45 processor handbook says it is not implemented, but the PDP-11 Architecture Handbook says "available in 11/04 but is different from other implementations"; the KD11-D Processor Manual (EK-KD11D-TM-PRE) says the "first instruction after RTT is guaranteed to be executed" - the same as the KD11-A CPU.

It plugs into a modified MUD backplane, either the the DD11-C or DD11-D backplanes, or the special DD11-P backplane of the PDP-11/34.

It supported the KY11-LA Operator's Console and the KY11-LB Programmer's Console, including the latter's maintenance functionality which allowed the CPU's microcode to be single-stepped. The KD11-D uses the same KY11 to CPU interface as the other machines that use them.

KY11-LB Interface

The microcode diagnostic interface to the KY11-LB is carried over a 10-wire flat cable connected to the J2 Berg connector header on the KY11-LB's M7859 module (the other 10-pin header on that card is unused with the -11/04), and a set of vertical pins in the upper left-hand corner (see image above) of the M7263. (The main functionality of the KY11-B is done over the UNIBUS, and a pair of backplane lines.)

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