12 Jun
1998
12 Jun
'98
12:16 a.m.
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:
<BTW, I mentioned a while back that I wrote a
simulation of a PDP-8 built
<from 2901's. I finally found the source code for everything but the
<assembler (but I did find a grammar spec). It's not in good enough shap
<to "publish", and I don't plan to spend the time to get it there, but
if
<anybody wants a copy, let me know and I'll send you source. (It's
<curses-based, and should run fine on any Unix or DOS box).
I'd love to see that... I have a big bunch of 2901s doing nothing.
OK, you asked for it.... The year was 1988, the language was C, and the
result was a budding software jockey's interpretation of how hardware
should work. Get out your 2901's, get ready to wire-wrap your MAR and
MBR, it's time for:
ftp://ftp.yowza.com/pub/pdp8-2901.tgz
-- Doug