IBM S/32, PDP-11/60+RL01, PDP-11/34, East Lansing MI

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Wed Mar 1 11:17:10 CST 2017


> On Mar 1, 2017, at 12:12 PM, Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> On 03/01/2017 05:27 PM, Henk Gooijen via cctalk wrote:
>> I have heard that story to. _IF_ you have WCS for the 11/60 ... not very common.
>> But even with WCS installed, there is a “small” problem: the PDP-8 microcode
>> for the 11/60 is lost ☹
> But it could be rewritten!

Presumably.  But it's not easy to replicate the work of a wizard like Richie Lary.

The microcode assembler is probably less of a problem.  Another issue would be to reconstruct the RSTS support code for loading the microcode and running PDP8 jobs, which doesn't seem to be around anymore either.

	paul



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