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All,<br>
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I was watching an old PDP-11 video when, seriously, I came across an
explanation of programming that involved wire snips. It was
interesting and brought home to me the concept of memory pages and
such. I thought I would share the screen shot with y'all. If it
doesn't come through imagine a guy with a pair of wire cutters
snipping off diodes from a ROM card for a PDP11. Is this really how
y'all programmed back in the day :)?<br>
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Is it possible to single step through a machine language program
(such as the bootstrap loader) that was entered using deposit
commands as it loads another program (such as the absolute loader, <br>
which this particular diode ROM represents) and similarly step
through the absolute loader itself as it loads something like
DEC-BASIC from paper tape, and if so, what does that process look
like in SimH terms?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Will<br>
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