4 Apr
2004
4 Apr
'04
6:15 p.m.
I'd be even more interested in a DPS-8 emulator
with a copy of
GCOS-8,
This would be a serious challenge - the hardware must be the extreme of a
CISC having:
extremely complex address modes that exceed even those of a VAX; and
"EIS" instructions that are close to hardware COBOL.
Interrupts only (potentially) enabled on odd(?) addressed instructions
Getting and configuring a copy of GCOS-8 might also be tricky
My experience was with GCOS-3 the predecessor of 8 ... extremely stable once
the (necessary) user-written modules were well debugged - extremely unstable
until then
This may well mean that the OS stability will also depend critically on very
detailed accuracy of the emulation.
Andy