On 22/01/14 10:23 PM, Rob Doyle wrote:
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The RK8E bootstrap is a little strange....
The bootstrap program /assumes/ that the disk is faster than the CPU.
When I sped up my PDP8, I exposed this race condition.
If the code is still executing the instruction at address 0031 after the
disk read operation, the disk wasn't read...
Thanks for sharing that little bit of knowledge. Awesome.
--Toby
Rob.