[Simh] Announcement: CDC 1700 release 2 and request for documentation

[John Forecast]

Mark reported that the build was broken but it looks like it’s all there now. There are a number of Coverity issues with a new file that I added but you should be OK unless you’re interested in tracing MSOS system requests.

  John.

> On Mar 15, 2017, at 3:37 AM, SPC <spedraja at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 2017-03-15 1:41 GMT+01:00 John Forecast <john at forecast.name>:
>> I would like to announce release 2 of the CDC 1700 simulator. The major changes include:
>> 
>>        1. Fix protect fault for 2-word instructions so that background task now work correctly
>>        2. Lay the ground work for supporting the enhanced instruction set of later
>>            Cyber-18 series processors
>>        3. Fix disk layout bug (Disks are not backwards compatible with previous version)
>>        4. Add debugging support for displaying MSOS 5 system requests
>>        5. Fix various problems found by Coverity
>> 
>> Fix #1 means that the Macro Assembler and Fortran compiler are now functional.
>> 
>> I’ve also added some utilities to simtools for manipulating .tap files (creating, extracting and
>> copying) along with a utility for handling COSY archives (COSY is a run-length encoding
>> scheme used on the CDC 1700 for storing source card decks). Bitsavers has tapes containing
>> source archives for the Macro Assembler, the Fortran compiler and MSOS 4.
> 
> Hi! Only a question... Is this release added to the SIMH repository?
> 
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> Sergio Pedraja
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