Q-Bus
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The Q-bus,[1] also known as the LSI-11 Bus, is one of several bus technologies used with PDP and MicroVAX computer systems previously manufactured by the Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, Massachusetts.
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Q-Bus | |
Created by | Digital Equipment Corporation |
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Width in bits | 8 or 16-bit data, 16-bit address extended to 22-bit |
No. of devices | 127 in theory, ~20 in practice |
Style | Parallel |
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The Q-bus is a less expensive version of Unibus using multiplexing so that address and data signals share the same wires. This allows both a physically smaller and less-expensive implementation of essentially the same functionality.
Over time, the physical address range of the Q-bus was expanded from 16 to 18 and then 22 bits. Block transfer modes were also added to the Q-bus.