On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 10:26 -0600, Jay West wrote:
2) My front panel has an oddity (to me). If I select
say address 10000 and
hit load addr the address lights respond correctly with 10000. I then hit
examine and get nothing (blank data lights). Whatever... but here's the
interesting part. If I keep pressing examine over and over again, the
address lights count up just like they should - except they skip bit zero
(the rightmost bit, either 0 or 15 whatever dec nomenclature is). I don't
mean that the rightmost bit just isn't displaying correctly, the actual
counting sequence acts like the rightmost bit is the 2nd light from the
right. I can tell it's not just a bulb problem because I don't have to hit
load addr twice to "move on", the count is smooth and sequential without the
rightmost bit. Any thoughts offhand?
(I'm not sure of this, yay, forth if I be mistaken, may the PDP-11
gurus, ye who lived and worked in the age wherein people talked thusly,
step forth and smite me with a hardware referance manual)
IIRC the PDP-11 is byte-addressed... It's counting up two bytes at a
time.
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Tore S Bekkedal <toresbe at ifi.uio.no>