Hi folks,
Well, the haunted house season is over and the cleanup continues.
Now I'll have more time to put into the HP2000 simulation project.
As you may remember we did get HP2000 Access running under simulation, as
well as "E" and "F". But so far no one is running a system full time.
I was running the system under Windows, but Unix and Mac are supported as
well. We have most all of the documentation including the source for Access
date code 1812, and should have most all of the contributed libraries.
Would any of you have access to other HIBE tapes? Ether in your archives or
in archives of data centers you used to support?
We still have more HIBE tapes that need to be converted to CD ROM and lots
of work sorting it all.
It sure was nice the first time I launched a telnet to my windows box and
got the "PLEASE LOG IN" prompt, and it was even better once I has able to
log in and play Adventure.
Since the simulation is faithful to the hardware, the original operating
system binaries don't even know that they are not running on real hardware.
I even have to use an image of the actual 2100 paper-tape bootstrap program
to get Access running under simulation.
With this approach to the simulation, every feature, flaw (if there were
any), or quirk is faithfully reproduced.
I'm trying to get HP to allow a hobby use open license, but until then the
package is available only on an as needed basis.
Do you know anybody who may want to play sysop and keep a system running for
the public to play with?
If so, just drop me a note.
Mgemeny_at_pgcps.org
Ps. We also did a paper on the project, which can be found here:
http://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/RCSGSO/Proceedings/Paper/A0053Paper.pdf
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Thanks in advance,
Mike.
Received on Mon Nov 17 2003 - 17:33:19 GMT