DEC VT05 with OS/8 -- basic system rebuild?

Philipp Hachtmann wrote: I don't think that I understood the source of your troubles. I think that the basic problem is that most of the OS/8 system did its own thing with the console. There is no getting around that. I suspect that it is impossible to rebuild OS/8 today. I would be surprised if OS/8 was actually maintained on a PDP-8. All of the diagnostic listing, for example, were generated using PAL10 on a PDP-10. I have tried to find a coherent set of binaries and this can be difficult too. SET is especially problematical because it requires intimate knowledge of the handler it is going to patch. I have the opinion that the the suggestions about using SET to change things in the KL8-E hander are a red herring, they were probably never added to SET. -chuck