The DEC Legacy Event is running this year from November 12th-13th 2022 in Windermere, UK.
Head over to http://wickensonline.co.uk/declegacy/ for more information. Hope to see you there. Regards, MArk. On Mon, 19 Sept 2022 at 17:15, Steve Lewis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Greetings, we've extracted the Executive ROS of the IBM 5100. The PALM > opcodes between the 5100 and 5110 should be identical. So we have > used Christian Corti emulator code to run that Executive ROS (under Wintel > environment). However, the CRC checks and transition to the Language ROS > apparently works a little differently on the IBM 5100 (compared to the > 5110). > > Not the CRC check method itself, but perhaps the addressing used to look > for the Common ROS. In the 5110, the Common ROS is more obviously a > separate device/card. For the 5100, I'm not exactly sure where the Common > ROS is (part of the Executive ROS card, or part of the BASIC ROS card?). > I've seen some APL-only 5100's, so I think that system could operate with > the BASIC card (but maybe that device slot still would have the Common ROS > segments?). > > Hoping someone is available to maybe give suggestions or tips in how to get > this emulator code going with the IBM 5100 ROS's (see EMUV5110 in github; > trying to use that to run the IBM 5100 ROS's that are at archive.org). > > NOTE: The Executive ROS for the IBM 5100 is a 64K binary (I think the last > 20K of that is blank, all 0's). In contrast, the Executive ROS for the IBM > 5110 is 32K. > -- M0NOM/P <https://www.qrz.com/db/M0NOM/P> ADIF Processor <https://bit.ly/adifproc>
