[Simh] pdp8

[nierveze]

hello Christian ,thanks for your answer ,I have found that some images work
,others don't ,I have made it work ok with os8 and os78 ,I went also one
step more ,and with putr made an os278 disquette and the decmate works .
I am happy :-))) thanks very much ,best regards
alain
----- Message d'origine -----
De : "Christian Buchegger" <christian at buchegger-home.de>
À : "nierveze" <nierveze at radio-astronomie.com>; <simh at trailing-edge.com>
Envoyé : dimanche 24 juin 2007 00:43
Objet : Re: [Simh] pdp8


> Hello Alain,
>
> it should exactly work as you have described. I just tested on my windows
> box using the images contained in
> the download http://simh.trailing-edge.com/kits/os8swre.tar.Z
> (os8_rx.dsk and os8f4_rx.dsk) both booted properly and showed the .
prompt:
>
> C:\pdp8>pdp8
>
> PDP-8 simulator V3.7-1
> sim> att rx0  os8f4_rx.dsk
> RX: buffering file in memory
> sim> boot rx0
>
> .
> .
> .DIR
>
>
>
> SYS  VOLUME--   1
> FORTRAN IV     SYS:=RX8E
> OS/8 SYSTEM   VERSION   3Q
>
> BUILD .SV  33           PASS2 .SV  20           FORLIB.RL 170
> CCL   .SV  18           PASS20.SV   5           BOOT  .SV   5
> DIRECT.SV   7           PASS3 .SV   8           BATCH .SV  10
> EDIT  .SV  10           RALF  .SV  19           FUTIL .SV  26
> FOTP  .SV   8           LOAD  .SV  16           LCSYS .BI   3
> RESORC.SV  10           FRTS  .SV  26           UCSYS .BI   3
> F4    .SV  20           LIBRA .SV  11           IDS   .SV   5
>
>   21 FILES IN  433 BLOCKS -    5 FREE BLOCKS
>
> .
>
> I also played around on Linux as well and all worked as expected.
> Maybe try to reextract the image from the download as it could have been
> corrupted .
>
> Hope this helps,
> Christian
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "nierveze" <nierveze at radio-astronomie.com>
> To: <simh at trailing-edge.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:30 PM
> Subject: [Simh] pdp8
>
>
> > hello Bob and all members of the list ,I am new to this list , I have
> > recently found a decmate ,I wanted to learn the pdp8
> > and os8 on emulator before using a real machine (this decmate is my
first
> > 'pdp8' ,I have lots of pdp11 ,but had no
> > pdp8 until today -I am really happy-I dowloaded
> > you simulator ,I already use  it for pdp11,but not pdp8,and the os8
> > package
> > found on your site. all went ok ,the emulated pdp8 is ok,the os files
> > decompressed as dsk images ,I did what I do on pdp11 :
> > att rx0 filename.dsk
> > boot rx0
> >
> > but the pdp8 does not boot ,it does nothing I can stop it ,and exit the
> > emulator ,but no boot ,what do I miss ?do I have to type in a
> > bootstrap?Please help me
> > thanks
> > ,best regards
> > alain nierveze
> > to have a look at some of my pdp11 and vaxes
> > www.radio-astronomie.com/info.htm
> >
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