[Simh] pdp7/decsys bug?
Robert Armstrong
bob at jfcl.com
Sun Jun 3 10:33:00 EDT 2007
> On the other hand, TSS/8 seems to be calling unimplemented
> instructions all the time. It stopped almost as soon as I ran
> it with the above instruction.
TSS/8 uses unimplemented IOTs (i.e. 06xxx opcodes) as monitor calls. With
the PDP-8 User Mode flag set, _all_ IOTs trap to the OS whether the hardware
actually implements them or not, and the TSS/8 designers simply picked some
unimplemented IOTs as the official way to call monitor functions. Is that
what you're seeing??
Bob Armstrong
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