14 Nov
2005
14 Nov
'05
11:04 a.m.
Hi,
Brad Parker said:
Has anyone successfully assembled pdp-8 focal with one of the unix pal's?
I was fooling around and grabbed the focal sources and pal. I had to
fix a few minor things but I got it to assemble. But it doesn't run.
Just curious if anyone else had tried this.
I suppose I could fire up tss/8 and run pald :-) Does tss/8 run on any
of the emulators?
I've run it using simh, but not actually _used_ it at all.
(but then, hmm.. how to get the output back off the
virtual disk)
Aye, there's the rub...
ok, os/8 might be a better choice... is focal known to build cleanly there?
It's supplied in bin tape format with Bernhard Baehr's PDP-8e emulator for
the Mac and I've run it, under os/8, to the point of loading and running the
supplied Towers of Hanoi program but I don't know enough about focal to
comment further.
Focal needs some patching to run on the emulator as it apparently expects
interrupt driven i/o, but Mr Baehr supplies a patch.
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb at dial.pipex.com
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