[cctalk] Re: oscilloscopes

2024-04-07 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
Paul Koning wrote: > Yes, and some emulations have done this, such as Phil Budne's famous work in > SIMH. Famous?? I'm famous???!!! To be fair, I started with Douglas W. Jones' PDP8 Emulator. Which reminds me of: If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the

Re: SIMH KL10 usage guide? Hints? and

2021-09-30 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
> Also trying to figure out how to set switches as in other KA/KL sims. > I can't seem to find a means of doing that in RC's KL. https://github.com/rcornwell/sims/blob/master/PDP10/kl10_fe.c has: extern uint64 SW; /* Switch register */ /* Handle

Re: DEC KM11 (Was: DEC KL11)

2021-09-23 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
> But the sector format is a different matter. If it's designed for > PDP-11 and friends, presumably it has a 512 byte sector size. > For PDP-10 or -20 use you'd presumably want a sector size consisting > of some round number of 36 bit words. 576 byte sectors (128 words), IIRC. The unit of

From SIMH list: Whirlwind software recovery

2021-03-08 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
> From: "Christian Brunschen" > Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 21:45:11 + > Subject: Re: [simh] recovering software for the MIT Whirlwind > To: s...@groups.io > > https://www.historia-mollimercium.com/whirlwind/ww-page.html >

Re: Systems Concepts SC-4 computer

2021-02-16 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
> > From: Lars Brinkhoff > > > Anyone ever heard of the Systems Concepts SC-4 computer? > Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > Given the SF address, and Peter Samson's signature, this is the _the_ > > Systems > > Concepts. Never heard of the SC-4, though. > > > > One oddity: the cover

Re: Getting files off a 7300

2020-07-13 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
UUCP?

Re: Small C ver 1.00 source?

2020-07-13 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
I can't make ANY assertions about version or pedigree of the files (which came to me in 1981 when I was using a PDP-10), but they APPEAR to be from Ron Cain himself, from SRI-KL (TOPS-20): ftp://ftp.ultimate.com/pdp10/c80.tar.gz Which contains runtime files from November 1979, and compiler files

Re: history is hard

2020-05-29 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
> From: Noel > > From: Jon Elson > > > As far as I know, there was no VM/360. There WAS VM/370, which was out > > in the early 1970's > > CP/67, which was a semi-product, and ran only on 360/67's, was basically the > same functionality as VM/370. (I get the impression that the code was

Fwd: Book on punched cards

2020-02-12 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
As seen on PDP-8 Lovers list: > From: "Jones, Douglas W" > To: PDP8-Lovers > Subject: [PDP8-Lovers] Book on punched cards > > A new book has come out that I helped create: > Print Punch > published by CentreCentre, London > 40 pounds sterling for the special edition (print run, 100

Re: Naked Mini 73-53628 Information

2020-01-28 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
I wonder if it's for the typesetter that's the subject of: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202/summer.scanned.pdf

Re: Converting C for KCC on TOPS20

2019-12-11 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
> KCC is mostly ANSI compliant, but it needs to use the TOPS20 linker, which > has a limit of six case-insentive characters. LINK has support for long (up to 72 character) symbols, and it appears FORTRAN v11 can generate them, but the MACRO assembler may never have gotten support;

Re: LISP implementations on small machines

2019-10-03 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
Noel wrote: > The PDP-6 and KA10 (basically a re-implementation of the PDP-6 architecture) > both had cheapo versions where addresses 0-15 were in main memory, but also > had an option for real registers, e.g. in the PDP-6: "The Type 162 Fast > Memory Module contains 16 words with a 0.4 usecond

Re: In search of an ancient IEEE-754 floating point test suite

2019-06-12 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
Have you looked at http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/software/ieee/ ? Which says: "All C programs can also be compiled with old-style Kernighan and Ritchie C. However, inasmuch as I now have access to only one such old compiler, with more than 35 others supporting 1989 Standard C, I

Re: Modems and external dialers.

2019-06-04 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
See the v6 dn (IV) man page: http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/4/dn NAME dn - DN-11 ACU interface DESCRIPTION The dn? files are write-only. The permissible codes are: 0-9 dial 0-9 : dial * ; dial # - 4 second delay for second dial tone

Re: Infocom mystery binary

2019-04-23 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
$ file zap zap: mc68k COFF object not stripped (demand paged) ISTR A/UX had a COFF. 68k SunOS used a.out format.

Re: PDP-8: count number of set bits in a word

2019-04-05 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
A general discussion of population count: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8590432/when-to-use-parallel-counting-mit-hakmem-for-bitcount-when-memory-is-an-issue

Re: V6 cc needs hash before whitespace before first include?

2019-02-28 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
> Anybody know what the story is there? It's an indicator that the pre-processor needs to be run first. The v6 code I've seen never used an include file for the stty/gtty calls (as opposed to using a struct defined in an include file) so I'm betting it was a speedup to not fork/exec another

Re: seeking punched-card reader in Boston area

2019-01-17 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
I'm in Arlington (once called West Cambridge) and have an HP 6270A (table top reader w/ RS232 interface) sitting on the floor next to me. The feed roller had disolved into a puddle of goo, which I cleaned up/out and was able to send some cards thru, and see output on the serial port. I've never

Re: Another IC I Can't Identify

2018-11-11 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
> 9643TC-B1 http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/components/fairchild/_dataBooks/1978_Fairchild_Full_Line_Condensed_Catalog.pdf pdf p.219 Dual TTL to CCD/MOS Drvr Pinout? http://ic72.com/pdf_file/d/161010.pdf

Re: Manual for Data Media Elite 2500 terminal?

2018-05-31 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
FreeBSD termcap has: dm2500|datamedia2500|2500|datamedia 2500:\ :do=^J:al=15^P\n^X^]^X^]:le=^H:bs:ce=^W:cl=\177:\ :cm=^L%r%n%.%.:co#80:dc=10*^P\b^X^]:dl=10*^P^Z^X^]:\ :dm=^P:ed=^X^]:ei=10\377\377^X^]:ho=^B:ic=10*^P^\^X^]:\

Re: Weird Lear-Siegler ADM-3A board

2018-05-25 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
Looks to me like the circuit board says "ADM 3R"

Re: PDP11 I/O page memory map

2018-03-02 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
It might be interesting to make a virtual PDP-11 (simulator) that *IS* more virtualization friendly, and find out how much user code depends on the existing behavior... And then write a PDP-11 hypervisor! BUT existing PDP-11's aren't even friendly restarting after a page fault, which is required

Large HP plotter on the curb in Arlington, MA

2018-02-12 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
Spotted next to driveway of 7 Central St, Arlington MA Model C6075A. Attached sign says "needs new print head" https://h10057.www1.hp.com/ecomcat/hpcatalog/specs/provisioner/05/C6075A.htm is copyright 2006, so perhaps not "classic" and says: "HP Designjet 1055cm Printer" (tho

Re: DL10 documentation

2018-01-27 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
FWIW, Found these bits in the TOPS-10 7.04 sources: http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/tops10_704_monitoranf_bb-x140c-sb/01/10,7/anf10/chk11.p11.html Search for ";DETERMINE THE DL10 BASE ADDRESS" Which tries setting the following bit pattern: DL.CNX!DL.CPE!DL.CWC!DL.11C Those bits and others can

Re: Reviving ARPAnet

2018-01-18 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
Noel wrote: > but I dunno how one would hook _that_ simulation up to a simulated host > running a simulated ARPANET interface. It would seem silly to simulate a bit by bit interface, so just come up with an encapsulation of 1822 messages in TCP? Two-octet count(*), plus 1822 leaders . (*)

Re: Reviving ARPAnet

2018-01-17 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
> - Unix? I asked around for v6 Unix with "NCP" code when the IMP code was resurected, but never found it

Re: DL10 documentation

2018-01-09 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
> Ah, right you are: I just assumed from the name (without checking!) that it > was some kind of variant on the DN87 - which I guess it is, just a more major > one than I thought! :-) The later-day TOPS-10 front-end ecosystem which included the DN87 was called "ANF-10" (*) and included both local

Re: DL10 documentation

2018-01-09 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
I wrote: > Now, simulating the DL10 so you can run TVs would REALLY be bringing > back a lost artifact!! https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/279 says: larsbrinkhoff commented on Mar 31, 2017 I think the number of PDP-11s connected were limited by the address space of the Rubin IO-11

Re: DL10 documentation

2018-01-09 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > Richard has DE10 working already, but that's not supported by ITS. > Adding that support is not out of the question, but we want to give the > DL10/DC76 a go. ITS speaks TCP (over an IMP interface, which is simulated in KLH10), so it hardly seems worth jumping thru hoops

(Mostly Sun) Hardware and Docs in Arlington MA

2017-05-29 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
The following would like to find new homes: Not ESPECIALLY interested in boxing/shipping (the docs would be easy, and would love to see them preserved for posterity). BOXED SunOS 4.0 doc set with 4.0.1 update 2 lg , 1 medium, 2 small boxes Also have SunOS 4.1.2 install manual Sun