Grandfather system RTE6/VM?

From: Holger Veit <holger.veit_at_ais.fhg.de>
Date: Sat Nov 15 08:34:35 2003

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:32:52AM -0800, Al Kossow wrote:
>
> >I am working for some time now to get RTE-6/VM to run on simh.
> >What I need is a 1:1 disk dump of a bootable RTE-6/VM system
>
> you will also need to either reverse engineer the custom microcode
> or find a document that describes what the added instructions do.

Some relevant microcode ROMs (e.g. the various FPP, Fast Fortran, VIS, etc.
sets) are described in the engineering handbooks, which are available thanks
to you. Infact, it is a problem that both RTE-IV/B as well as RTE-6/VM needs
some accelerator ROMs.

> it's unfortunate that the Interex release appears to be binary only.

Yes, but I am about to reverse engineer this stuff if necessary. The nice
thing with all these old systems is that it they are pretty small. My former
work some time ago to analyze the OS/2 kernel internals was much more work -
there is a difference in looking at 32K Bytes of code than in 800K.
The Interex release is even worse than binary only - it needs a working
system to do a SYSGEN.

Holger
 
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