[Simh] PDP-6 and KA10 software kits

[Richard Cornwell]

On Mon,  6 May 2019 23:52:00 -0400 (EDT)
Rich Alderson <simh at alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:

> > From: Zane Healy <healyzh at avanthar.com>
> > Date: Sun, 5 May 2019 09:10:32 -0700  
> 
> > The PDP-6 list sounds good, is there any other software still
> > available?  For the KA10, TENEX and WAITS would be the most
> > interesting.  
> 
> WAITS never ran on a bare KA-10.  The PDP-6/KA-10, later the
> PDP-6/KA-10/KL-10, then the KA-10/KL-10, and finally the bare KL-10,
> were the SAIL WAITS systems. WAITS also ran on the Foonly F-1 at
> CCRMA and a KL-10 at LLNL.

  Define what you mean by bare KA-10. From what I can see early WAITS
  ran on a KA10 with a custom IBM3330 disk interface. There appears to
  be one version that ran on the KA10 that used the BBN pager. Note
  Bruce's Javascript PDP10 appears to emulate a pretty standard KA10.
 
> (Having spent 4 years getting WAITS onto a KL-10 at the museum,
> reading the source from top to bottom, I am quite confident of this
> statement.)

  If you can get me a copy of WAITS for KA10 I will give it a try.

> TENEX requires the BBN pager on the KA-10.

   BBN pager support is in my simulator however it is not tested. I
   have been unable to get TENEX to link, and don't think I have enough
   pieces to actually build the thing.

   Right now I have Tops 10 6.03 for both KA and KI (with VM), Tops
   5.03 for KA. I should have a pretty complete 4.5/4.72 soon. Along
   with a functional TSExec 1.4. Possibly also 3.19.

   Once I get the PDP6 mods done I plan on adding the WAITS PMP disk
   controller.

Rich

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