Getting KL-10 support in SIMH would be great, but I believe it would be quite a big job. Still, KLH10 would be a great starting point.
Regards Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing- > edge.com] On Behalf Of Sergiusz Jarczyk > Sent: 08 July 2010 14:02 > To: Rich Alderson > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Simh] late versions of TOPS-20 on SimH [was Re: CDC 6600] > > Hi Rich > > 2010/7/8 Rich Alderson <[email protected]>: > [...] > > The SimH PDP-10 emulation is only a KS-10. Although there was a port > of > > TOPS-20 v5.4 to that platform, it was not widely available, and > support > > for it dropped more than 25 years ago (as the principal in the > project > > informed me when I asked about it several years ago). TOPS-20 v4.1 > is the > > last version which DEC supported. > > > > It's a jim-dandy Tops-10 platform, on the other hand, running v7.04 > like a > > champ. > > > > If you want to play with TOPS-20 networking, you really do want a KL- > 10 > > processor or an emulator of same, so KLH10 is the only way to go, > unless > > you're intimately familiar with the KL-10 hardware and can recreate > it in a > > simulation. > > > > I'm aware of these limitations. I'm using KLH10 on daily basis for > some time now, both for TOPS-20 and ITS, and I can confirm it's a > great piece of code. The only problem for me was the timing issue on > amd64 system (there is no native x64 build for KLH10), but two changes > in makefile was enough to get ride of them... :-) I'm not sure if > KLH10 is still actively developed (I'm using version 2.0h - as in > Panda distribution with tun/tap patch), and that's why I was wondering > if it'd have sense to try to merge KLH10 code into SimH (at least the > KL10 part) , so we can have full PDP-10 support... > > Sergiusz > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
