PDP-10 Emulator (was: Re: MULTICS Installation, Halifax)

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Tue Nov 7 18:44:14 2000

"Daniel A. Seagraves" <DSEAGRAV_at_toad.xkl.com> wrote:
> [Stu Grossman's kx10]
> I have a copy of this. It works OK, it will boot TOPS-20, but there's not
> much to do with a single-user TOPS-20.

It's not limited to single-user. It simulates an NIA20 ethernet interface
and supports multiple users over telnet. I imagine it should work fine
with LAT and DECnet also, but I haven't tried.

> It also doesn't have any kind of console

The console is the standard in and standard out of the terminal from
which you invoked it.

> Tape support is sorely lacking,

Tape support works fine. That's how I installed TOPS-20 on it.

> and it only supports a single RP06.

Are you sure? I thought it supported eight of them. I'm not at home
now so I can't check.

> Mine's going to be a lot nicer. :P

I hope you're right! :-)
Received on Tue Nov 07 2000 - 18:44:14 GMT