26 Mar
2006
26 Mar
'06
7:28 p.m.
Jay West wrote:
Does anyone have a .dsk image of an RL02 with a later
version of XXDP
v2? Hopefully that matches more closely the diagnostic manual on
bitsavers? Thanks in advance!
Jay West
I don't think there is such a thing. I have been searching for PDP-11
diagnostics for several years. The available images: xxdp22 and xxdp25
seem to be the best thing out there.
The "Diagnostic Handbook" describes a version of the diagnostics in
superficial detail. It is MUCH better than nothing, but it has nowhere
near the detail necessary to use the diagnostic tests if they fail. For
this you need the program listings.
The "Handbook" was also written in Europe. This makes me think it was
something created in the field and not supported directly by DEC. That
makes me think there was no unified diagnostic package, but that options
had diagnostic tapes or disks and that they were distributed on an
ad-hoc basis.
DEC users in the day can say more about this... I am only guessing from
the available evidence.
-chuck