On Tue, 7 May 2019 00:22:09 -0400 (EDT) Rich Alderson <s...@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 00:06:29 -0400 > > From: Richard Cornwell <r...@sky-visions.com> > > > > On Mon, 6 May 2019 23:52:00 -0400 (EDT) > > Rich Alderson <s...@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote: > > >> WAITS never ran on a bare KA-10. The PDP-6/KA-10, later the > >> PDP-6/KA-10/KL-10, then the KA-10/KL-10, and finally the bare > >> KL-10, were the SAIL WAITS systems. WAITS also ran on the Foonly > >> F-1 at CCRMA and a KL-10 at LLNL. > > > Define what you mean by bare KA-10. From what I can see early > > WAITS ran on a KA10 with a custom IBM3330 disk interface. There > > appears to be one version that ran on the KA10 that used the BBN > > pager. Note Bruce's Javascript PDP10 appears to emulate a pretty > > standard KA10. > > The KA-10 was always connected to the PDP-6 via shared memory as long > as the PDP-6 was in use (until the KA-10 and KL-10 were moved from > the D. C. Power Lab to Margaret Jacks Hall on the main quad). In the > sources, references to processor P2 mean the PDP-6, until it was > demoted to P3 and the KA became P2, as the KL became the primary > processor. > > Yes, the KA-10 used the BBN pager. We have it in Seattle. > > The disk controller is irrelevant to which CPU(s) were in use. From my looking at the oldest WAITS sources, the disk controller is very important. Without a disk controller all you can do is talk to stand alone stuff. > >> (Having spent 4 years getting WAITS onto a KL-10 at the museum, > >> reading the source from top to bottom, I am quite confident of this > >> statement.) > > > If you can get me a copy of WAITS for KA10 I will give it a try. > > Any pre-1974 WAITS.DMP will be KA/PDP-6 only. Pick up the blob file, > convert the octal dump to binary, and you're good to go. This does not get me a WAITS system, only the monitor. I also don't believe all the utilities are available on saildart. > >> TENEX requires the BBN pager on the KA-10. > > > BBN pager support is in my simulator however it is not tested. I > > have been unable to get TENEX to link, and don't think I have > > enough pieces to actually build the thing. > > > Right now I have Tops 10 6.03 for both KA and KI (with VM), Tops > > 5.03 for KA. I should have a pretty complete 4.5/4.72 soon. Along > > with a functional TSExec 1.4. Possibly also 3.19. > > > Once I get the PDP6 mods done I plan on adding the WAITS PMP disk > > controller. > > That will be fun. Rich -- ========================================================================== Richard Cornwell r...@sky-visions.com http://sky-visions.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-cornwell-991076107 ========================================================================== _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh