1 Nov
1998
1 Nov
'98
1:57 a.m.
It's too bad most micros don't have a debugger in ROM. Except for
computers made by Apple, I don't know of any. I especially wish the
PC had a ROM debugger. It would really help me feel like I'm using a
worthwhile machine.
> (and isn't this obvious) acceptable at the
keyboard are relative to
the
> operating system. So, which OS is it that is
running on your
machine?
The 11/44 has a rather nice monitor built in to the CPU system. It runs
on an 8085 processor, and it lets you type commands on an standard
ascii
terminal to edit the PDP11's memory, start/halt
programs, etc. Even
look
at the CPU microprogram counter.
It's a replacement for the old lights-and-switches panel. The commands
are totally independant of any OS you might be running - in fact you
can
use the 'frontpanel' commands on a machine with
no mass storage at all.
-tony
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