[Simh] examine octal and ascii in SimH

[Will Senn]

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> On Feb 20, 2016, at 10:53 AM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> On Feb 20, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> In SimH:
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>> It is possible to display bytes in ASCII form:
>> sim> e -c 1032-1034
>> 1032:    AB
>> 1034:    C<000>
>> 
>> It is also possible to display words in octal:
>> sim> e 1032-1034
>> 1032:    041101
>> 1034:    000103
>> 
>> Is it possible to display bytes in octal, or bytes in both ASCII and Octal at the same time?
>> 1032 101 A
>> 1033 102 B
>> 1034 103 C
>> 1035 000 NUL
>> 
>> or even just the octal bytes themselves?:
>> 1032 101
>> 1033 102
>> 1034 103
>> 1035 000
> 
> For all these, the answer is: that's up to the individual CPU emulation.  Some do, some do not.  The switches used to request this are fairly consistent.  You might try "e -o 1234" for example, and that may work.  Or not...  
> 
> If you want it but it isn't there, you can of course add it.
> 
>    paul
> 
> 

Hmm. It does words not bytes in pdp-11. As for modding the sim - I'm a ways from being comfortable doing that just yet :)