[Simh] KS10 IMP documentation

[Cory Smelosky]

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> On Feb 29, 2016, at 09:33, Timothe Litt <litt at ieee.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 29-Feb-16 12:34, b4 at gewt.net wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Can anyone point me at IMP documentation for the KS10? I'm only seeing AN10 maintenance printsets up on Bitsavers...I'd love documentation that isn't KLH10's KS10-ITS implementation!
>> 
>> Alternatively, were any of the experimental Ethernet interfaces ever supported in TOPS-10/20 on the KS10? (I don't have access to my SRI-NIC packs due to the VM being down at present)
>> 
>> Alternatively too...the userland ANF-10 bridge could prove useful for this...
> Not clear what you want to do.

Sorry - this is KS10 FPGA-related, too early in the morning ;)

> 
> The KS does have an ARPA interface, the AN22.  I have not tracked down a spec for it.  It is KMC-11 based, not simulated by SimH at present.  The TOPS-20 monitor sources for 4.1 are a resource.  One day I'll get access to my stuff at CHM and will look for a spec.  It's on my list to see if it's worth emulating.

That right there is immensely useful. KMC stuff already needs implemented for DECnet.

> 
> The DEUNA is simulated in SimH.  Neither the released TOPS-10 nor TOPS-20 support it.  There is some TCP code floating around that does.

I've now forgotten who wrote it...but I've tried it out!

> 
> If you're trying to move files in and out:
>   DECnet does work (phase II on TOPS-20, Phase III or IV on TOPS-20), and will talk to VAX/RSX.  You can move files by stopping on or PMR thru) one of them.

Ah right - I forgot TOPS-20 was Phase II only...ARPA stuff would prove useful there, then.

> 
>   ANF-10 on the KS does work, KS-KS.  It should be possible to build the -11 nodes on the KS & boot them on a SimH -11.  I've been meaning to get around to that, but haven't.  With ANF, besides the peripherals and terminals, you get DCP.

Hmmm!

> 
>    Networking on the KS is supported on both OSs by the KDP emulator.  The DMR should work, though I think there's a monitor bug in 7.04 where my colleagues changed AC definitions and didn't update the DMR driver.  Also on my list.

Did the patches make it in to the "7.05" patches or was it forgotten then as well?

> 
>     You can also move files in and out with Kermit (serial lines), cards, magtape, printer.

Magtape emulation and an LP20<--->lpd bridge...time to research if lwIP implements that!

> 
> I don't know what you mean by 'anf-10 userland bridge'.  Of course, FAL on the -10 listens to both DECnet and ANF.

I think that was a Johnny E. Project...a bridge exists in Linux user land.

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