27 Aug
2009
27 Aug
'09
5:29 p.m.
On Aug 27, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Aug 27, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Daniel Seagraves wrote:
Console line is plugged into another computer that has a program that
sends over the microcode and software.
It takes a long time.
I'll bet. Would you be interested in sharing this? I'd like to
fire up my KS10 one of these days.
Do you mean the SCSI driver or the microcode/RAM loader?
The SCSI driver is pretty useless without a Viking UDT controller, but
the RAM loader can be shared around.
I'll pull it off the other computer later and post it. I already gave a
copy to Rich (I think?).
Fair warning, it's terribly simple. All it does is dump deposit
commands to the console processor.
One of these days I should get un-lazy and make it more clever.
Yes, if "running" means "turned on and
executing instructions".
I've been
(very slowly) hacking up a SCSI driver for it, but it doesn't run
an OS yet.
So far I've put a filesystem on a disk and restored a minsys tape
on it
(both SCSI devices) but I haven't made a timesharing driver yet.
That
project is set aside for a while so I can get other things done.
How are you loading the microcode?