On Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 19:46 Michael Zahorik <m.zahorik at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Kyle, I have not run my machine since March. Summer is
car season. But I
thought that maybe I could run this little program quickly. My PDP8E
started up, loaded the RIM and SERIAL DISK then OS/8 ran. Everything looked
good, BUT...... something is wrong with my FORTRAN 4. Programs seem to
compile, but I can't even run a simple test program that prints out
whatever I enter from the TTY. Something has gone south. Anyway, I'm not
familiar with the command FLOAT(). Do I have to have floating point
hardware to use this? Well.... either there is something wrong with my
machine or more likely with my FORTRAN software or even more likely
operator error (me). So many times after a long summer I have to re learn
most of what I learned last winter. Kinda of like when I was in school
after summer vacation.
Mike Zahorik (414) 254-6768
Since you're running SerialDisk...did you disable the SerialDisk interrupt,
or are you running a new enough version to do so?
If FRTS hangs when executing, that would be one possible explanation. FRTS
is only smart enough to check the interrupts it knows about; the aux TTY
interrupt is apparently not handled.
Thanks!
Kyle