On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:05:41 -0400
Phil Budne p...@ultimate.com wrote:
I don't think anyone has bootable TENEX media. It would be a labor
of love to try to cross-compile TENEX under TOPS-20 on a Toad-2,
then build a boot program for the KI that could read it in from
disk. At least the file system layout is similar to TOPS-20.
Do KI TENEX sources exist?? They had to simulate the BBN paging box
(using the KI page tables as a Translation Lookaside Buffer).
Someone was working on KA (and KI) simulation in SIMH (to bring the
conversation back around) and ISTR had TOPS-10 6.03 running.
That would be me. :-) It runs 6.03 and 5.03. The KI needs 2 more
instructions to finish, before I can test it. Does anyone have VMSER
for 6.03?
I've been busy working on getting Scope 3.0 and 3.1 up and running
under DtCyber so I have not been playing with the KA/KI simulator. I
also have Monitor TS 1.19 and 4.05 transcribed. Right now my machine
does not do DecTape so I can't run these older monitors.
For those who are interested I managed to find a copy of the source
for CDC Scope 3.1, and also a hacked copy of the Fortran RUN compiler
for COS. Since neither has copyrights I believe I can make them
available. RUN is sort of broken on COS.
With a simulated KA (and peripherals), the SIMH TOPS-20 KS10 paging
code probably gives you a big running start at the BBN paging box
(which ISTR I have a document on).
ISTR seeing some KI code for Tenex that used the KI pager to
simulate the BBN paging box.
We've probably bored the broader audience enough. Talk to you soon
in private e-mail.
I'm not bored!!
Me either, been following alone. :-)
BTW, the KA/KI simulator was written so that it would model the
hardware so the code is not the neatest. I am working on cleaning it
up and emulating the results rather then the algorithm.
Rich
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