[Simh] mac lisp on pdp-10?

[Tim Newsham]

if you, or others, could provide a guide for running
maclisp in ITS in simh, I think that would be great.
If not, any hints you can give would be appreciated.
I only chose to use klh10 over simh because I read
that others had used it to run ITS.

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Rich Alderson
<simh at alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:44:12 -1000
>> From: Tim Newsham <tim.newsham at gmail.com>
>
>> Can ITS and maclisp run on the simh pdp-10 emulator?
>> Does it run shrdlu?
>
> Yes, they can.  I've been doing it for years.
>
> I've not tried SHRDLU on ITS.
>
>
>> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:38:05 -1000
>> From: Tim Newsham <tim.newsham at gmail.com>
>
>> I take that back.. the config files present in the klh10 dist under run
>> already reference the PI-ITS-RP06.0-dbd9 file.
>
>> Unfortunately I havent had much luck running it yet..  not sure why, but
>> possibly because I'm on a 64-bit linux and I built everything with "gcc
>> -m32".  I built "base-ks-its" and copied the files from run/ksits and when I
>> run "kn10-ks klh10-kn.ini" and type "go" it doesnt seem to be doing anything.
>> If I hit a key the first key seems to have no visible effect but following
>> keys print out a message like "[CTYI: 15 => 415, old 415]".  not sure if this
>> is the emulator misbehaving, or me doing something wrong.
>
> I remember seeing this under ks-kn10, but don't remember what the fix was off
> hand.  I'm away from my computer until later this week, so I'll have to look
> that up and get back to you, probably not on the SimH list.
>
> The SimH KS-10 is much better behaved for ITS, in my experience; I only use
> KLH10 for Tops-20 v7.x and Tops-10 v7.04.  Then again, I usually use the real
> hardware at the museum for all three.
>
> You need to look at Bjorn Victor's intro pages http://victor.se/bjorn/its/ for
> how to set things up, even if you think you intend to use Ken Harrenstien's
> distribution on the PI disk image (which you will have to convert to SimH
> format with the KLH10 tools).
>
>                                                                 Rich Alderson
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