Re: [Simh] Kaypto II

2015-07-01 Thread Clem Cole
my thoughts for what they are worth... On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Kevin Handy khandy2...@gmail.com wrote: Should I make a new kp2 display device, or add parameters to the fw code? If there is a way to split the fw code into mapped display common code and then fw and kp2 specific. Then

[Simh] C64 and C128

2015-07-01 Thread Bill Cunningham
I think maybe the simh doc too might have confused me a bit. 3.1.3 talks about word length, not addressability and that kind of confused me. I was looking into the PDPs and then commodore machines that ran CP/M which I guess was C128. I never had one. C64s and TRS-80 CoCos but not C128. So

Re: [Simh] C64 and C128

2015-07-01 Thread Timothe Litt
On 30-Jun-15 21:48, Rich Alderson wrote: [Snip] A great summary, to which I'll add a couple of additional infobits: The Intel 4004 (and 4040) use 4 bit data words, (mostly) 8-bit instruction words 12-bit addresses. (Some instructions use two 8-bit instruction words.) The external bus is 4

Re: [Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-07-01 Thread Michael Kerpan
This looks very cool. I wonder when the first web server running this stack will come online. I also notice the presence of an IRC client. Has anyone tried to chat from a PDP-11 yet? Mike On Jun 30, 2015 7:46 AM, Johnny Billquist b...@softjar.se wrote: I'm happy to announce a new release of

Re: [Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-07-01 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-07-01 23:08, Michael Kerpan wrote: This looks very cool. I wonder when the first web server running this stack will come online. I also notice the presence of an IRC client. Has anyone tried to chat from a PDP-11 yet? You mean apart from mine, as Madame.Update.UU.SE is already serving

Re: [Simh] C64 and C128

2015-07-01 Thread pigi
Il 01/07/2015 12:13, Timothe Litt ha scritto: At ~90KIPS, it isn't exactly speedy - though I had a project that managed to do some speech synthesis with it (!). O_O Respect !! Best regards from Italy, dott. Piergiorgio. ___ Simh mailing list

Re: [Simh] bits and bites

2015-07-01 Thread Bill Cunningham
Is that F-831F ? It's all I can find from May 65. - Original Message - From: Jack Rubin To: simh@trailing-edge.com Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 12:14 PM Subject: [Simh] bits and bites Just to add to the general hilarity, the PDP-8 Interface Manual (DEC publication

Re: [Simh] C64 and C128

2015-07-01 Thread Rhialto
On Tue 30 Jun 2015 at 19:56:06 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: 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 not know. It was of

Re: [Simh] Using an ODS-2 physical SCSI drive with simh

2015-07-01 Thread Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm
Hi Peter, It ‘should’ work just fine, but Christian’s suggestions to work from a copy are quite reasonable. The latest simh code from github can be used to make this copy for you: sim set rq2 rauser sim ! On Windows sim attach rq2 –fc raw Raw-Disk-Image.vhd \\.\PhysicalDrive1

Re: [Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-07-01 Thread Michael Kerpan
Indeed. I meant apart from your own. Mike On Jul 1, 2015 5:24 PM, Johnny Billquist b...@softjar.se wrote: On 2015-07-01 23:08, Michael Kerpan wrote: This looks very cool. I wonder when the first web server running this stack will come online. I also notice the presence of an IRC client. Has