I've decided to try my hand at building a TOPS-10 with DECnet on a KS10/simh. I followed a lot of the discussion of this a couple of months ago, but I'm not sure where it all ended. Can anybody point me to a copy of the PDP10 simh with the latest DMR/KDP support?
Here's what I know:Rob Jarrett ported a KDP simulation to the latest emulator. It didn't quite work. There's a personal repo on github, but it's not worth a pointer.
I have 2 -10s and 2 -20s configured for DECnet (and ANF-10) running on my desktop. (!) No 11-based ANF nodes yet.
I made some progress - I had ANF-10 up for an hour or so; DECnet-10 not at all; DECnet-20 sometimes. The KDP emulation is missing some commands that the OSs count on. My code isn't in the repo, yet.
Mark Pizzolato has a DUP emulation that he says is mostly working on 11s and VMS. Rather than keep two DUP emulations, the plan was to split the KDP into the KMC + DUP, rather like the real hardware.
I've been off line for about the past 10 daze - e-mail appears and disappears on my servers - the responsible party calls it an 'upgrade', so I'm not sure what the current state pf the KDP/DMR work is.
I have tracked down the COMIOP-DUP microcode USER's documentation with the help of Al Kossow and Cynde Moya, and it's on bitsavers along with the DMR tech manuals. (Both even agree with my memory.)
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/unibus/AA-5670A-TC_COMM_IOP-DUP_Programming_Manual_Jan78.pdf and http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/unibus/EK-DMR11-TM-002_Jan81.pdf; also http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/unibus/EK-DMR11-UG-002_DMR11_Synchronous_Controller_Users_Guide_Dec80.pdf
Once I catch up on e-mail, I'll see what I can do to help, depending on where Mark and Rob are. (They may have given up on me due to my on/off (mostly off) mail service. Hopefully that's fixed.)
I have 2,475 e-mail messages to sort thru before I'm up-to-date...but should have some time this weekend. I hope.
This communication may not represent my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed. On 07-Jun-13 13:36, Bob Armstrong wrote:
I've decided to try my hand at building a TOPS-10 with DECnet on a KS10/simh. I followed a lot of the discussion of this a couple of months ago, but I'm not sure where it all ended. Can anybody point me to a copy of the PDP10 simh with the latest DMR/KDP support?Thanks, Bob Armstrong _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
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