[Simh] EXT :Re: PDP-10 simulation: DEUNA support help needed

[Anders Magnusson]

Rhialto skrev den 2015-04-27 20:43:
> On Mon 27 Apr 2015 at 14:27:22 -0400, Timothe Litt wrote:
>> Trying to port TCP utilities to the -10 would be non-trivial.  Somewhere
>> there IS a C compiler for the -10.  But 36-bit words; 6, 7, 8 & 9 bit
>> chars;  location 0 being  a valid AC address and a few other endearing
>> attributes of the -10 do not make porting easy.  (Although the C
>> language in theory can deal with it.)
> For a while there was an attempt to make a port of NetBSD to the PDP-10.
> Its goal was (partly) I think to shake out various assumptions in the
> code that were less than portable. However the attempt was never
> completed, and at some point the code was dropped.
The code is just moved to Attic, so it may be resurrected by someone 
someday.
The PDP-10 port is my fault.  It is at the point when the system wants
to mount the root filesystem, but I couldn't really decide how to deal 
with the
disk structures in a sane way.

-- Ragge