On 2015-09-21 15:15, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> From: tony duell
> In some cases it should be possible to write a machine code program
> that executes on 2 processors with wildly different instruciton sets.
I have this bit set that I was told (or something, the memory is _very_
vague) that early versions of the KL-10 had this hack; the root block on the
disk was the boot block both the PDP-10 and the PDP-11 front end machine, and
the first instruction or two was very cleverly construced and sent the two
machines different ways. Alas, I looked in the front-end PDP-11 code (in the
KLDCP; directory) and saw no signs of this, so maybe it was an urban legend?
I suspect that would be an urband legend, as the KL10 is booted by the
PDP-11, and does not, on its own, start reading something from the disk
to start executing. Or at least that is how I remember things...
However, the PDP-11 FE filesystem exists, as a plain file, in the
PDP-10s file system (TOPS-10 or Tops-20).
Johnny
