[Simh] PSI for TOPS-20

Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net
Thu Jan 16 19:39:33 EST 2014


On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Rich Alderson wrote:

>> From: G. <gerry77 at mail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:01:00 +0100
>
>> On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:16:20 -0800, Mark Abene wrote:
>
>>> By chance, does anyone have a tape image of PSI for TOPS-20 v7?  I want to
>>> get X.25 connectivity going.  Probably a long shot, but doesn't hurt to ask.
>
>> Both Trailing Edge and Bitsavers have BB-W661A-BM (V1.0 1983) and BB-W661B-BM
>> (V1.1 1984) tape images, but they are for TOPS-20 V5.1 so maybe they do not
>> work with V7. On the other hand, Autopatch tape 23 (V7 indeed) has references
>> to PSI V1.1 so you may just want to give it a try... :)
>
> Given that this question was raised in a SimH context, I have to point out that
> SimH only emulates a KS-10 processor, which is limited to TOPS-20 v4.1, and
> which does not support the DN20 interface (a PDP-11/40 [or /34?]) which does
> DMA via the DTE20 into KL-10 memory.  Looking at the tape on Trailing Edge, it
> specifies the DN20, so I think that this is a non-starter.
>
> Someone please point out if I'm wrong about this.
>

Someone was implementing DMC/KMC emulation for SIMH, iirc.

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