[Simh] PDP-10 simulation: TENEX

Phil Budne phil at ultimate.com
Wed Jan 4 18:48:47 EST 2017


> I was looking at the BBN pager spec and it did not look as complex as
> it did the first time I looked at it.

And the TOPS-20 paging code in the KS10 code should be "similar"

> From my reading of the TENEX sources it looks like it just used the
> paging hardware to simulate the BBN pager. 

I believe the premise of the KI10 port was to use the hardware as a
TLB (translation lookaside buffer) much as the BBN pager had a number
of cached entries, and the "smarts" of the BBN pager were emulated in
software.

Dan discusses it at: http://tenex.opost.com/hbook.html


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