8 Mar
2001
8 Mar
'01
3:01 a.m.
I figured this would be of interest to people here, especially with a good
rundown of where to go and what to get. Timothy Stark has released his
TS10 Emulator which emulates a DEC KS-10 and will at least run TOPS-10
V7.03.
Emulator (in CVS):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ts10/
Software:
http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/
Here is some info from Timothy Stark on the tapes:
Well, you need a listing of packages to install
TOPS-10 v7.03 system on
my TS10 emulator.
BB-X138B-BB KS Bootable TOPS-10 v7.03 tape
BB-X140B-SB TOPS-10 v7.03 Monitor sources
BB-X128B-SB TOPS-10 v7.03 w/sources #1
BB-FP63A-SB TOPS-10 v7.03 w/sources #2
BB-FP64A-SB TOPS-10 v7.03 Tools w/sources
BB-X130B-SB CUSP w/sources
They are in .TAP files that you can get them from
Tim's archive. I thank
to Tim Shoppa for makeing .tap files on your archives.
To boot TOPS-10 operating system. You need KS10
Bootable tape first
(BB-X138B-BB) and type 'boot mta0:' to load and run BOOTM program.
Then, type '/tm02' to execute it. It will load and run Monitor.
Following instructions that Monitor ask you for.
First time, use
'DESTROY' to initialize emulated RP06 disk file. When you answer
'Y' to start system up, you should see a dot prompt.
I will write installation how to install other tapes
into system.
TOPS-10 Operators Guide:
http://www.36bit.org/dec/manual/
So far everyones experience is showing that you need an x86 box running
Linux to run this (and not every version of Linux). Work is going on to
get this running on other OS's right now.
Right now there is no installation guide for installing TOPS-10 v7.0x.
Zane
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