Re: [Simh] pdp11 - console input with high bit set

7-bit on input was good (so 8N1 was popular). Rich Rich Alderson ex LCM+L s...@alderson.users.panix.com ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh

Re: [Simh] Release of PDP10 KA/KI and PDP6 simulators.

> From: Zane Healy > Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:23:28 -0700 >> On Jul 10, 2019, at 4:29 AM, Richard Cornwell wrote: >> I am pleased to announce a new set of simulators for the PDP10 series of >> computers by DEC. The simulators currently run the PDP6, KA10 and KI10. I >> will be adding the KL10

Re: [Simh] PDP-6 and KA10 software kits

> Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 00:06:29 -0400 > From: Richard Cornwell > > On Mon, 6 May 2019 23:52:00 -0400 (EDT) > Rich Alderson 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

Re: [Simh] PDP-6 and KA10 software kits

> From: Zane Healy > Date: Sun, 5 May 2019 09:10:32 -0700 > The PDP-6 list sounds good, is there any other software still available? For > the KA10, TENEX and WAITS would be the most interesting. WAITS never ran on a bare KA-10. The PDP-6/KA-10, later the PDP-6/KA-10/KL-10, then the

Re: [Simh] TMXR/UC15 documentation?

> From: Johnny Billquist > Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 01:23:37 +0200 > On 2018-07-17 14:01, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: >> The ITS restoration team is getting ready to hook up eight (simulated) >> Unibuses to a (SIMH) PDP-10. The MIT AI KA10 machine really did this, >> and we want some of the

[Simh] ^E as console escape [was Re: DZ issues on PDP10]

re than 15 years now) included the following line in any PDP-10 initialization script, to change the console escape for ^\ (the expected character on the KS-10 and KL-10 front end processors): d wru 034 I suggest that anyone experimenting with the PDP-10 make that same change.

Re: [Simh] Configuration limitations

> From: Johnny Billquist > Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 02:24:41 +0200 > On 2018-04-12 23:49, Bob Supnik wrote: >> Enforcing configuration restrictions (for example, no mixing of disks >> and tapes on the same channel) is yet more work. > Uh... Which should not be done to start

Re: [Simh] TOPS-10 question

> From: Quentin North > Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 22:15:05 + > Im trying to get the BCPL compiler on TOPS-10 going and I have the install CTL > file which sets out the following pre-requisites: > ; THE FOLLOWING MODS TO THE SYSTEM/CUSPS ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE SMOOTH ; >

Re: [Simh] pdp11 i/o addressing

> From: Timothe Litt > Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:15:28 -0500 > Overlays were used to compensate for limited virtual address space. ITYM "Overlays were used to compensate for limited address space." I first encountered the notion of overlays in IBM 1401 and System/360 programs.

Re: [Simh] Crowther's Adventure game

> From: Carey Tyler Schug > Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 10:41:11 -0600 > I had always been told it was first written in some proprietary DEC list > processing language, and only later converted to FORTRAN. Is this the > original conversion? You have been misinformed, or you

Re: [Simh] BLISS and C

> From: Clem Cole > Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:21:36 -0500 > My point was less on PL/1 and more to the point that Ken had access to BCPL > and did not have BLISS. But he still decided to create what would become > B. Ken had no tools for the PDP-7, which was part of a Graphics-1

Re: [Simh] BLISS and C

> From: Paul Koning > Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:33:30 -0500 >> On Jan 29, 2018, at 12:05 PM, Clem Cole wrote: >> ... One can argue, why did Ken not just build something more like BCPL >> instead of B? I can not say, maybe the brevity of { } from PL/1

Re: [Simh] 101 Basic Games for RSTS/E (was Re: PDP11 on Simh for public access)

> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:35:18 -0600 > From: Hunter Goatley > On 1/26/2018 2:22 PM, Timothe Litt wrote: >> BLISS would have done better in the outside world, except for the >> DECision to price it higher than the market would bear. > Indeed! I was fortunate to get

Re: [Simh] PDP-10 simulation: DEUNA support help needed

> From: Lars Brinkhoff <l...@nocrew.org> > Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 09:42:45 +0000 > Rich Alderson wrote: >> only 3 systems ran WAITS: SU-AI at SAIL, a KL-10 system attached to >> the S-1 project at Lawrence Livermore Labs, and a Foonly F2 at CCRMA > Are you sure the

Re: [Simh] Dec-10 Day announcement from Living Computers: Museum + Labs

> From: Johnny Billquist > Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 01:01:11 +0100 > So I would assume it at least performs similar to a real RP07, which is > nice. Seek times will obviously almost always be better on todays disks. > As long as transfer rates are acceptable, then this is a very

Re: [Simh] Dec-10 Day announcement from Living Computers: Museum + Labs

> From: Johnny Billquist > Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 11:12:45 +0100 > Rich. This is a nice thing. Thanks. Thanks, Johnny. > I have one question/wish, though. > I don't know if you were aware of a device called the RM06. This was a > Massbus disk created by Shelby, which was

[Simh] Dec-10 Day announcement from Living Computers: Museum + Labs

Happy DEC-10 Day! It is my honor to announce that we at Living Computers: Museum + Labs are releasing to the computing community our Massbus Disk Emulator and all the associated software. This device connects via Massbus cables to the RH10 and RH20 interfaces on KI-10 and KL-10 systems, to the

[Simh] FW: SimH IBM1130 GUI appears broken

JAMES FEHLINGER posted the following to the ClassicCmp mailing list. I don't see anyone forwarding it (yet). Rich -Original Message- From: cctalk On Behalf Of JAMES FEHLINGER Sent: Wednesday, May

Re: [Simh] panda dist

05-APR-;7 hello TIME: 0.02 SECS. READY save test.bas READY old test.bas READY It looks as though it's an issue with the BASIC distributed with TOPS-20, rather than a KLH10 or Panda distribution problem. Have you tried it on a SimH KS-10 (bringing the question back to relevance for thi

Re: [Simh] VAX 8200

> From: Ethan Dicks > Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:21:54 -0400 > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Gary Lee Phillips > wrote: >> Looking at what images I can find on the web, TU-80 seems correct. The one >> we had was just generally flaky, I guess. It

[Simh] [s...@alderson.users.panix.com: Re: Announcement: back10]

with? Rich --- Start of forwarded message --- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:55:55 -0500 From: Rich Alderson <s...@alderson.users.panix.com> Subject: Re: [Simh] Announcement: back10 > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:34:45 WET > From: Johnny Eriksson <b...@cafax.se&

Re: [Simh] Announcement: back10

> From: Lars Brinkhoff > Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:42:00 +0100 > Johnny Eriksson wrote: >> This is very much a work-in-progress, so things might change. If >> you have any opinion on how things should work, please let me know. > If there's one thing I'd wish for, it would be

Re: [Simh] TSS-8 and ETOS free-redistribution licenses (PDP-8 operating systems)

> From: Al Kossow <a...@bitsavers.org> > Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 12:07:59 -0800 > On 1/16/17 12:02 PM, Rich Alderson wrote: >> I don't recall any mention of CMU in his story, but perhaps the other person >> was from CMU. I can ask him, of course. > "Computer

Re: [Simh] TSS-8 and ETOS free-redistribution licenses (PDP-8 operating systems)

om CMU. I can ask him, of course. Rich Rich Alderson Sr. Server Engineer Living Computers: Museum + Labs 2245 1st Avenue S Seattle, WA 98134 http://www.LivingComputers.org/ ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://

Re: [Simh] TOPS-20 4.1 Cobol 12c Sample test failure

> From: Pascal Parent > Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 22:55:48 -0700 > I installed TOPS-20 V4.1 and COBOL-74 12C in SIMH. However, I am running > into an error when trying to run the XT74 sample in UETP.LIB. > I also installed Cobol 12C from the same tape on the Panda Distribution

Re: [Simh] RT-11 source

> From: Johnny Billquist > Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 03:11:05 +0200 > In fact, I would probably suggest Ray start with just writing some code > to do some simple things without looking at existing code. The first > thing needed would be to just have something that can load

Re: [Simh] RT-11 source

> From: Ray Jewhurst > Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 10:44:05 -0400 > I know that RT-11 is under license from Mentec No, you don't. Mentec has not existed for many years now. The remains of the PDP-11 intellectual property have been in the hands of XX2247 for several years.

Re: [Simh] Semi-OT: 7-bit binaries

CC'd to the SimH mailing list so that everyone sees that there is an answer to the question, not just a complaint from an old fart. > From: Cory Smelosky <b...@gewt.net> > Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 11:34:50 -0700 > On Oct 4, 2016, at 10:57, Rich Alderson <s...@alderson.user

Re: [Simh] Semi-OT: 7-bit binaries

> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 19:05:19 -0700 (PDT) > From: Cory Smelosky > This is somewhat OT, but you people are honestly the best people to ask. Why bother the SimH community, most of whom seem to be interested in Vaxen or PDP-11s these days, when alt.sys.pdp10 is readily available?

Re: [Simh] TOPS-20 5.1 on KS10?

> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 20:43:57 -0700 (PDT) > From: Cory Smelosky > I've heard and seen anecdotes of people having run TOPS-20 5.x on a KS10, > does anyone know how it was done, or done it themselves? As far as I know, exactly 1 person, and 1 person only, ever ran Tops-20 v5.4

Re: [Simh] Question about card readers.

> Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 19:54:22 -0400 > From: Richard Cornwell >>> Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 18:07:15 -0400 >>> From: Richard Cornwell >>> I am asking for feedback on how to handle Punched card input. I am >>> wondering about how to handle the

Re: [Simh] Question about card readers.

re be anything to be truncated or continued in a read? Rich Rich Alderson Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer Vulcan, Inc. 505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900 Seattle, WA 98104 mailto:ri...@livingcomputermuseum.org http:

Re: [Simh] Contributing to SimH

Rich P.S. It later turned out that we had it on an uncatalogued mag tape in the PGA collection. Not a wasted effort, because I know way more than I ever thought I'd want to about KI/KL paging. Rich Alderson, emeritus curator Sr. Systems Engineer Living Comput

[Simh] file system conversion [not really Re: Way out idea for simh]

> From: Johnny Billquist > Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 23:57:38 +0200 > On 2016-04-20 20:48, Ken Cornetet wrote: >> Again, you don't need OS support for foreign file systems, you just need to >> be able to read the disk blocks in a raw mode. > And what Rich said (again) is that you

Re: [Simh] Way out idea for simh

> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 17:04:18 + > From: sky...@sky-visions.com > For example the B5500 does not have the concept of a mountable pack. > Drives could be attached, but they were a permanent attachment. For the > Ibm 7000 line, most did not support disk. The disk drive that was > supported

Re: [Simh] Setting DECSERVER 90L to factory defaults

> From: "Robert Thomas" > Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 20:07:14 -0400 > This procedure doesn't re-establish the factory defaults. It is one of those > flawed designs that occasionally slip through to cut costs with unexpected > consequences. The 90L and 90L+ are the only

Re: [Simh] Setting DECSERVER 90L to factory defaults

> From: "Robert Thomas" > Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:37:09 -0400 > The comment with respect to the power/power on sequence is to allow for the > authorize password change. If one doesn't cycle power immediately after > changing the password, the change is ignored. > Given the

Re: [Simh] Setting DECSERVER 90L to factory defaults

http://manx.classiccmp.org/collections/mds-199909/cd2/network/dsrvdom1.pdf > From: "Robert Thomas" > Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 15:47:00 -0400 > I know that this is off topic, but we do communicate with Decservers from the > SIMH microvax simulator. We bought a replacement

Re: [Simh] text from openvms

> From: "Bill Cunningham" > Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:23:35 -0500 > I have been studying the best way to copy from a vax simulator with = > openvms to a linux host, text files. The Docs look like telnet and = > kermit are the way to do it. So is there not a device

Re: [Simh] PDP-15/76

> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:31:35 +0100 > From: Mattis Lind > We have a bunch of documents related to PDP-15 and XVM/DOS. Some of them > does not appear to be present on bitsavers. If there are interest we will > try to make an effort and have them scanned. >

Re: [Simh] networking support

> From: Paul Koning > Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 09:01:02 -0500 [in response to a statement that only the PDP-11 and VAX simulators have networking support] > pdp10 does, also. I had to go look at the documentation for this. I see that the DEUNA/DELUA is emulated, but

Re: [Simh] Disk info request

> From: Timothe Litt > Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 20:47:45 -0500 > Below is a list of all the disks that have been used with FILES-11 (ODS2) for > which I have reliable (I think) data. > The list has blank spots for a lot of disks that I know exist, but for which I > don't have

Re: [Simh] Disk info request

> From: Clem Cole > Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 12:04:30 -0500 > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: >> I suspect MSCP came before SCSI. > I agree. In DEC's case, support for MSCP certainly was first, but I > believe the protocols are

Re: [Simh] pdp11 and unix

> From: "Robert Thomas" > Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:37:19 -0500 > When I was in graduate school at Princeton in 1974, we used UNIX on a > PDP-11/45 running Tex to typeset faculty papers, as well as writing compilers > using lex and yacc and studying operating system and

Re: [Simh] Klh10 vs Simh

> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:48:48 -0500 > From: Michael Kerpan > I've been hoping for a KL simulation in SIMH for a while. KLH10 lacks > support for things like serial over Telnet which means that multiuser > is essentially impossible on KLH10 without all kinds of networking

Re: [Simh] RT-11 Storage Strategy

> From: Paul Koning > Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:02:26 -0500 > Still, the amazing part is that RT on DECtape actually works. It's the only > DEC OS I know of for which that is true. I know that RSX-11M works on DECtape, at least in the form of RSX-20F, the variant used

Re: [Simh] RSTS/E 10.1-L and Paper tape

> From: Mark Pizzolato > Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 16:00:19 -0800 > Meanwhile, the 'crude' way to exchange data on most simulators can > actually be done with cut and paste in console or telnet sessions. While I do use c for command lines from time to time, I've never found it

Re: [Simh] transferring files to and from v6 unix running in pdp11 emulator

> From: Will Senn > Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:35:06 -0600 > How can I efficiently copy files from my host system to unix version 6 > running in the pdp11 emulator and from unix 6 to my host system? You have gotten a number of answers, but none of them strikes me as the best

Re: [Simh] terminal multiplexers

> From: Al Kossow > Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:52:27 -0800 > On 11/12/15 5:25 AM, Patrick Finnegan wrote: >> DEC's DECserver, Xyplex Maxserver, Annex terminal servers, and Xylogics >> (for the ones I have touched and remember) all converted telnet into real >> RS/EIA-232

Re: [Simh] An update on the UC15

> From: Bob Supnik > Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 13:52:14 -0400 > The UC15 supported a variety of PDP11 peripherals, but the only ones > that matter are thethe RK11/18b, and the LP11. A console port was > available for debugging, and sometimes a paper tape reader was added for >

Re: [Simh] off-topic basic translator

From: Ken Cornetet ken.corne...@kimballelectronics.com Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 20:55:06 + Perl has goto. Just sayin' *Pascal* has goto. Writing a VAX basic to perl translator sounds like fun, and when you are done, you'd have learned a usable language. Yes, and one in which white space

Re: [Simh] C64 and C128

From: Bill Cunningham bill...@suddenlink.net Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:56:06 -0400 I remember those floppy drives where big and heavy. I never had cp/m or a c128. I am reading that an 8502 and Z80A (which I can't find anything on) was inside. The Z80A was about 4 MHz. The Z80A word size I do

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: PDP-10 simulation: DEUNA support help needed

From: Phil Budne p...@ultimate.com Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:12:57 -0400 Rich Alderson s...@alderson.users.panix.com wrote: On 27-Apr-15 14:56, Cory Smelosky wrote: ...This is getting absurd. Just how many stacks exist?! BBN had a TENEX stack. Not sure if DEC's started with it. I think

Re: [Simh] -10 comms

Wandering further afield for a moment, I just want to point out that the KI-10 at Living Computer Museum has 2 sets of serial lines. The publicly accessible ones run at 9600bps via a DN87 connected to a DL10; the others, used for admin connections internally, run at 2400bps through a DC10A/DC10F.

Re: [Simh] Simulating the PDP-15/76 Unichannel

At several points in the discussion, the KL-10 has come up as an example of a system with a PDP-11 front end processor. Reference has been made to shared memory between the -11 and the PDP-10 engine which is the main reason for the existence of the system. The PDP-11/40 front end and the PDP-10

Re: [Simh] Principal vintage software developer

Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:33:05 -0700 From: Mark Abene phi...@phiber.com On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Al Kossow a...@bitsavers.org wrote: On 6/10/14 3:28 AM, Quentin North wrote: I saw this job advertised in Seattle which may be of interest to members of the list

[Simh] Tim Litt

Tim, If you're out there, please contact me off-line. I have some questions only you have the answers to. Thanks, Rich Alderson

Re: [Simh] PSI for TOPS-20

From: G. gerr...@mail.com Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:01:00 +0100 On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:16:20 -0800, Mark Abene wrote: By chance, does anyone have a tape image of PSI for TOPS-20 v7? I want to get X.25 connectivity going. Probably a long shot, but doesn't hurt to ask. Both Trailing Edge

Re: [Simh] TOPS-20 Source with KMC11 Driver Code?

From: Robert Jarratt robert.jarr...@ntlworld.com Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 23:33:36 +0100 Can anyone point me at the right place to look at TOPS-20 driver code for the KMC11? I can see that it is trying to get the Microprocessor to do something and read back some values, but I don't know what

Re: [Simh] Formally documenting PDP tape drive behavior (and other facets of SIMH and the systems it emulates)

... let's make sure SIMH and its fellow emulators like MAME / MESS can still be enjoyed and understood by future generations. Amen! Rich Alderson Living Computer Museum Seattle ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com

Re: [Simh] mac lisp on pdp-10?

Harrenstien's distribution on the PI disk image (which you will have to convert to SimH format with the KLH10 tools). Rich Alderson ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http

Re: [Simh] Don Daglow's Dungeon

written in MDL (a Lisp dialect) on the Dynamic Modeling Lab PDP-10 at MIT. The Fortran translation of that game, known as Dungeon, was done by an anonymous engineer at DEC (reputedly someone we all know on this mailing list). Rich

Re: [Simh] minimal linux

, Jason, There are any number of minimal Linux distros available using the latest kernels. Why travel so far back in time for the base platform? Why not reserve those impulses for the systems we love to emulate? ;-) Rich Alderson

Re: [Simh] Installing layered products on RSTS/E 10.1

manual. Hope that helps. Rich Alderson ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh

Re: [Simh] Bug in PDP-11 emulator docs

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:34:00 +0800 From: Michael Richter ttmrich...@gmail.com The docs say that the TC11/TU56 DECtape drives are device DT. In reality it seems they are TC. On what operating system? Rich

Re: [Simh] transferring files to and from simh

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:34:46 +0800 From: Fernan Bolando fernanbola...@mailc.net anybody have an updated method of transferring files to ITS/simh? Updated with respect to what? As far as I've been able to determine, one can manipulate the Ruby script created by the genminsys script to pick

Re: [Simh] hi ?

discussion. It's going along just fine. (You never answered my question, for example.) Rich Alderson ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman

[Simh] DECtape marks issue????????

Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:08:01 +0200 From: dott.Piergiorgio dott.piergior...@fastwebnet.it (looking to the DECTape marks issue, for example) What is the DECtape marks issue? The DECtape emulation in SimH does not simulate the mark track on a DECtape, so I don't understand how there could be

Re: [Simh] RT-11 .DSK usage (was DECUS C)

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:45:32 -0400 From: sho...@trailing-edge.com (Tim Shoppa) Rich asks: So, do I understand correctly that I can attach one of these .dsk files to a drive in a SimH PDP11 instance, run RSX-11M or RSTS/E, and FLX will do the right thing with it? Or is there other magic

Re: [Simh] [simh] new paper on history of Unix

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:01:50 -0700 From: Carl Lowenstein carl.lowenst...@gmail.com On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Nelson H. F. Beebe be...@math.utah.edu wrote: This new paper on the history of Unix may be of interest to some readers; getting the PDF from the DOI may require an IEEE