Re: [Simh] The missing PDPs

2019-08-12 Thread Warren Young
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 8:17 PM Johnny Billquist wrote: > As far as I can > remember, the changes needed compared to a PDP-8 is not much. PC is at > address 0 instead of internal to the CPU, and interrupts then store the > PC at 1, and start executing at 2. > All the rest of the CPU works the

Re: [Simh] The missing PDPs

2019-08-12 Thread Warren Young
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 7:54 PM Ray Jewhurst wrote: > > Has any ever thought of writing simulators for the two missing systems, > the PDP-5 and the PDP-12? > Are you reacting to this recent post over on the PiDP-8/I list? https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pidp-8/1Rdv-Syg9H4/_KSeiGkmEgAJ If

Re: [Simh] The missing PDPs

2019-08-12 Thread Johnny Billquist
I'm almost surprised that the PDP-5 isn't already done. As far as I can remember, the changes needed compared to a PDP-8 is not much. PC is at address 0 instead of internal to the CPU, and interrupts then store the PC at 1, and start executing at 2. All the rest of the CPU works the same, as

[Simh] The missing PDPs

2019-08-12 Thread Ray Jewhurst
Greetings, Has any ever thought of writing simulators for the two missing systems, the PDP-5 and the PDP-12? I know there is documentation for both on Bitsavers and software for the PDP-12 and I have seen some papertape labeled for both use on the PDP-5 and PDP-8. If I had the knowledge I would