On Nov 9, 2016, at 3:59 AM, Christian Corti <cc at
informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
On Tue, 8 Nov 2016, Josh Dersch wrote:
with the TC11 system," and I haven't
managed to find it. I *have* found
this:
http://mirrors.pdp-11.ru/inf.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdp11/dtf.mac
... which is simply a mirror of our FTP server at
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/cm/...
I enhanced DTF with some useful messages and error/status output. IIRC the
"original" version produced no messages at all.
That sounds right. The convention of the paper tape era diagnostics is that errors are
reported by halts at specific (documented) addresses, sometimes with specific values in
R0.
paul