[Simh] Potentially stupid questions: PDP-10/TOPS-20

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Wed Apr 28 10:25:21 EDT 2010


At 6:59 PM +0800 4/28/10, Michael Richter wrote:
>Question #2: I want to start tinkering with TOPS-20 under SIMH, but 
>I can't find a sysgen tape image that boots.  Every one I've tried 
>so far after attaching and using SIMH's boot command has just led to 
>SIMH sucking up all my CPU and doing nothing else, even if left 
>alone for hours.  Does anybody know of a known-good tape image to 
>sysgen a TOPS-20 installation from that works under SIMH?

For TOPS-20 you really want KLH10.  You can get some useful info from 
my page on PDP-10 emulation.  Please be warned, the page hasn't been 
updated in several years.

Zane



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