10 Aug
2016
10 Aug
'16
9:30 p.m.
On 08/10/2016 08:03 PM, dwight wrote:
I guess I'm not with the rest. I'd prefer
ascii HEX format.
SIMH may not be around in 50 or 100 years.
50 years ago, ASCII (USASCII) wasn't terribly common, except on 7-level
TTY. A lot of machines used 6-bit codes and IBM's new line of S/360
used EBCDIC.
But I think I've run exactly one emulation on SIMH--IBM 1620--and it
didn't involve tape.
I chose the SIMH .TAP format because it was formally documented. I
include a copy of the document with every tape job.
--Chuck