[Simh] single cycle stepping for pdp11

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Thu Sep 5 06:02:04 EDT 2013


On 2013-09-05 07:15, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 04, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Doug Snyder wrote:
>> it appears that simh supports single instruction stepping, but not single cycle stepping for the pdp11.
>   >
>> if this is the case, have there been attempts or requests to add single cycle support?
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> The core behaviors of the simh simulators are built around the execution of instructions.  This is the level which things are simulated at.
>
> What problem are you trying to solve or deal with your request to be concerned about clock cycles?

And even further - single cycle stepping will mean different things on 
different models of the PDP-11. Or rather, different models do different 
amounts of work in a single cycle.

	Johnny

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