[Simh] Fanfold Photos.

[Johnny Billquist]

Hi.

On 2017-10-07 17:24, Brett Bump wrote:
> 
> Paul, (and anyone else that wants to take a look).
> 
> http://www.rsts.org/~bbump/unknown_author

Oh! I just realized I misunderstood the quote you started with. The 
specific peek "sequences" have most of the time always been unsupported, 
as what the sequences do are describing is how to dig through various 
internal RSTS/E structures in a running system to get specific 
information. The data structures and where they reside have never been 
guaranteed to not change between versions.

So, in the end, nothing surprising at all here. I initially thought the 
text was saying that PEEK was unsupported in that version.

   Johnny

> 
> It's not like it is that long, I will probably end up typing it in.
> 
> Brett
> 
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, Paul Koning wrote:
> 
>>
>>> On Oct 6, 2017, at 3:29 PM, Brett Bump <bbump at rsts.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> This is mostly for Tim and Paul, but I figured to cross-post in case any
>>> one might have seen this before (before I lob thy Holy Hand Grenade).
>>>
>>> 1.  In cleaning up some of my old paperwork, I stumbled across a fanfold
>>> .   paper copy of "RSTS/E System Programmer's Notebook" page 3 (no 1-2)
>>> .   followed by Chapters 1-5 and Appendix A, B pages 1-5.  The bottom of
>>> .   the Preface reads:
>>> .
>>> .   "What follows is a sermon, it is not a Gospel."
>>> .
>>> .   A section on the first page of Appendix A has a paragraph that says:
>>> .
>>> .   CAUTION
>>> .   The PPEK sequences described in this     (sic. I presume PEEK)
>>> .   document are not a part of the supported
>>> .   functionality of RSTS/E V6C as described
>>> .   in the RSTS/E Software Product Description.
>>> .
>>> Has anyone seen/read this before, know who wrote it, have a digital copy
>>> that could be distributed out, or am I destined to type it back in so 
>>> all
>>> can read (it is good material on old yellowed crackly fanfold paper)???
>>
>> That doesn't ring bells, and I don't seem to have that document in my 
>> files.  I was part of RSTS/E development at that time, so if it came 
>> from there I might have seen it but let it slip my memory.
>>
>> Could you scan a few pages, perhaps the first few and a couple of 
>> pages of that appendix, so I can see more of the context?  Just a 
>> simple photograph is probably good enough if you don't have a scanner.
>>
>> Typing it all in is hard work (I've done it for un-OCR-able listings, 
>> 300 pages).  If the listing is clean, a scan plus OCR will cut the 
>> effort very considerably.  Or just a scan, since scans are perfectly 
>> readable for humans.  OCR is only necessary if it's code that you want 
>> to be able to compile/assemble or other kinds of data that need to be 
>> processed by some program.  Not too long ago I sent an old listing of 
>> "BTSS" (RSTS v0) to another person on this list, who scanned it very 
>> skillfully.  In other words, those capabilities are around.
>>
>>> 2.  I lost a very good friend (coworker) this week to MI (he was 
>>> 66).   ...
>>
>> I'm sorry to hear that.  I don't have answers on your other two 
>> questions.
>>
>>     paul
>>
>>
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