There was no mention in the 3.8-2 RC1 release notes of a 6800 emulator. However, Bob hasn't released the final 3.8-2 kit yet.
>1.3 3.8-2 > >1.3.1 1401 > >- Added "no rewind" option to magtape boot. > >1.3.2 PDP-11 > >- Added RD32 support to RQ >- Added debug support to RL > >1.3.3 PDP-8 > >- Added FPP support (many thanks to Rick Murphy for debugging the code) Dave -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Beech (NJ7P) Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 4:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: EXT :Re: [Simh] PDP-11 oddity Ok. How do I get 3.8-2? Web site still holds only 3.8-1. I want to see if my 6800 emulator made it in. Thanks! Bill On 06/15/2011 01:10 PM, Bob Supnik wrote: > It's a bug, and it's fixed in 3.8-2: > > 05-Jan-11 RMS Fixed bug in deposit stride for numeric input > (John Dundas) > > If you want to edit the code, the fix is in dep_addr: > > GET_RADIX (rdx, dptr->dradix); > if ((reason = parse_sym (cptr, addr, uptr, sim_eval, sim_switches)) > > 0) { > sim_eval[0] = get_uint (cptr, rdx, mask, &reason); > if (reason != SCPE_OK) > return reason; > reason = dfltinc; <<< add this line >>> > } > count = (1 - reason + (dptr->aincr - 1)) / dptr->aincr; > > ------------------------------------------ >> Message: 1 >> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:47:37 -0500 >> From: Jon Elson<[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Simh] pdp-11 id command quirk >> Message-ID:<[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> Hello, >> >> I want to use the pdp-11 sim of simh to teach my kids some >> machine-language programming. >> I have it compiled and running on a Linux system. When using >> interactive deposit >> in the PDP-11 simulator, it increments by single byte addresses, so you >> get : >> >> PDP-11 simulator V3.8-1 >> sim> id 1000-1004 >> 1000: 1234 >> 1001: 2345 >> 1002: 3456 >> 1003: 4567 >> 1004: 5670 >> sim> e 1000-1004 >> 1000: 002345 >> 1002: 004567 >> 1004: 005670 >> so, you see that only every other deposit address actually wrote to >> memory, and the examine >> command properly increments by words. If there is a by-word switch to >> the id command, I couldn't >> figure it out from the source or help text. (I do see that id -c writes >> 2 ASCII characters to even addresses, >> and writing assembler mnemonics also works, but numeric values increment >> by one.) >> >> I tried the same thing on the vax780 sim, and it works fine, depositing >> 32-bit values on longword >> addresses, and then examining them just fine. >> >> If there is an option switch that makes it work correctly, I was unable >> to find that by inspecting the source >> or the documentation, or searching the simh archives. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jon >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Simh mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh >> >> End of Simh Digest, Vol 91, Issue 6 >> *********************************** >> > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
