[Simh] TMXR/UC15 documentation?

Rich Alderson simh at alderson.users.panix.com
Tue Jul 17 21:13:26 EDT 2018


> From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>
> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 01:23:37 +0200

> On 2018-07-17 14:01, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:

>> The ITS restoration team is getting ready to hook up eight (simulated)
>> Unibuses to a (SIMH) PDP-10.  The MIT AI KA10 machine really did this,
>> and we want some of the applications that used these capabilities.

> Really? The KA10 itself predates the Unibus. I guess it's possible they 
> added the ability to hook up Unibuses later in the life of the machine, 
> but the KI would have been around at that point as well, so a bit 
> surprising that they'd do anything with the KA at that point.

> Or was this perhaps a hack outside of DEC?

This was done at the MIT AI Lab, which had a KA-10 which they modified heavily
and ran until c. 1982.  The KI-10 was less forgiving of the kinds of hackery in
which they indulged, so would not have been as interesting a machine.

                                                                Rich


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