[Simh] Tops (-10) development

[Cory Smelosky]

On Fri, 12 Jun 2015, Johnny Eriksson wrote:

> I have recently re-started the old project to resurrect my IP stack
> for Tops-10.  This is at the moment done on a KLH-10, using the twonky
> system from trailing-edge.  (No, I have not abandoned SIMH, it still
> is used for the KS10).  One things I have noticed is that the files
> stored on www.stacken.kth.se are quite old, seems that the most recent
> versions were made available via tftp from an emulated KS that has not
> been up for a number of years...
>

The KS10 TCP/IP, not the Stacken stack, right?

> I will try to make the latest sources available somewhere.
>

Cool.

> I am currently in the process of setting up the system and getting all
> the latest DEC sources from all over.  I have found tape images for
> TSU[1-4], except for TSU3, tape 2.  Extrapolating from the other tapes
> makes me guess that it should be named BB-JR93M-BB, does anyone have
> that tape image?
>

Found BB-JR93N on Bitsavers...but not quite that one.

> I am also looking for the DECUS Europe symposium tape from 1983, I have
> what I think is 97% of that on disk, sadly I am afraid that it was read
> in such a way that bit 35 is missing...
>

Format correct?

> Regarding copyright etc. for the stuff I have written, consider it BSD.
> This includes new monitor modules and utilities, as well as extensions
> to SIMH and stuff like the mother of most of the versions of backup.c
> and backwr.c that are out there.
>

Alright - thanks.

> Command history:  from kicki there is a module cmdhis.mac, I am at the
> moment trying to merge it into the 7.05 sources from twonky, with some
> success, but the build from this morning tells me that the module needs
> some lessons in extended addressing, to make it say something a little
> bit more interesting than IME when talking to scnser.
>

;)

> Some people have asked questions about AMIS and how to build new versions
> of it, and what compiler to use etc.  If my fading memory is correct the
> compiler used is the one from the DECUS tape mentioned above.  It should
> however also exist in binary in the AMIS distribution.  I will check this
> out further.
>
> --Johnny
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