It's too bad most micros don't have a debugger in ROM. Except for
computers made by Apple, I don't know of any. I especially wish the
PC had a ROM debugger. It would really help me feel like I'm using a
worthwhile machine.
>> (and isn't this obvious) acceptable at the keyboard are relative to
the
>> operating system. So, which OS is it that is running on your
machine?
>
>The 11/44 has a rather nice monitor built in to the CPU system. It runs
>on an 8085 processor, and it lets you type commands on an standard
ascii
>terminal to edit the PDP11's memory, start/halt programs, etc. Even
look
>at the CPU microprogram counter.
>
>It's a replacement for the old lights-and-switches panel. The commands
>are totally independant of any OS you might be running - in fact you
can
>use the 'frontpanel' commands on a machine with no mass storage at all.
>
>-tony
>
>
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