On Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 19:46 Michael Zahorik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Kyle, I have not run my machine since March. Summer is car season. But I > thought that maybe I could run this little program quickly. My PDP8E > started up, loaded the RIM and SERIAL DISK then OS/8 ran. Everything looked > good, BUT...... something is wrong with my FORTRAN 4. Programs seem to > compile, but I can't even run a simple test program that prints out > whatever I enter from the TTY. Something has gone south. Anyway, I'm not > familiar with the command FLOAT(). Do I have to have floating point > hardware to use this? Well.... either there is something wrong with my > machine or more likely with my FORTRAN software or even more likely > operator error (me). So many times after a long summer I have to re learn > most of what I learned last winter. Kinda of like when I was in school > after summer vacation. > > Mike Zahorik (414) 254-6768 > Since you're running SerialDisk...did you disable the SerialDisk interrupt, or are you running a new enough version to do so? If FRTS hangs when executing, that would be one possible explanation. FRTS is only smart enough to check the interrupts it knows about; the aux TTY interrupt is apparently not handled. Thanks! Kyle
