On Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > On Jul 10, 2014 2:02 PM, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se> wrote: > > > > On 2014-07-11 01:08, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: > > > On Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: > > >> On Thu, 10 Jul 2014, Henry Bent wrote: > > >> > > >>> Well, that at least did something different. > >>> > >>> sim> boot rq0 /r5:8 > >>> Loading boot code from vmb.exe > >>> %BOOT-F-Unexpected Exceptio > >>> > >>> The 8600 simulator always seems to cut off the last character of its > >>> messages, I wonder if that's in any way related to the other console > >>> problems. > >>> > >> > >> 780, 750, and 730 have the same issue...along with not actually booting > >> from > >> the console RL, floppy, et al. > > > > The last character output in a message just prior to executing a HALT > > instruction is not surprising since the simulator implements a delay > > (as a number of instructions executed) from when the data is put in > > the output register prior to generating the completion interrupt/status. > > The halt instruction gets executed before the delay number of > > instructions have completed. Even if that was 'fixed', nothing > > operational would change. The reason the message has been > > generated will still exist.
The latest github code will no longer drop the last character output just prior to executing a HALT instruction which returns to the "sim> " prompt. Like I said above, nothing else changes though. - Mark _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
