PDP11/23 More dumb questions

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Thu Mar 30 13:53:20 2000

On Mar 30, 22:30, Olminkhof wrote:

> I do this and get:
>
> 147470
> _at_
>
> Further iterations all result in:
>
> 173000
> _at_
>
> If I hit restart at any time after that there is a some disk activity and
> eventually and "&" prompt appears.

The first address is in RAM, which is interesting. It suggests the
processor is executing some bootstrap that gets copied into memory. 173000
is the standard bootstrap address; every time you restart the CPU, it sets
the program counter to that address. The "&" is not any normal PDP-11
prompt, so that must have come from the disk or custom boot roms.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Thu Mar 30 2000 - 13:53:20 BST

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