5 Sep
2010
5 Sep
'10
10:31 a.m.
On 9/5/2010 10:08 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 9:01 AM -0700 9/5/10, Al Kossow wrote:
I'd be interested in seeing what has been done so far. I would think
that the big bits would be the IOM, DN-355 (comms) and disk. The system
could be configured with drum for swapping, but that was dropped from
the design later.
I believe that the console on our system was on a different bit of
hardware as well, so there might be some way to get booted up w/o the
Datanet running. The nice thing about the Datanet system was that it
was pretty much a 516 (If memory serves me) and there is already an
emulation of that running. I remember looking at the software and
firmware for that subsystem and seeing it looked like the Honeywell mini
we had where had left school.
Jim
On 9/4/10 10:59 PM, Andy Holt wrote:
While I never worked on a Multics system, I spent a few years working
on a couple DPS-8 Mainframes running GCOS-8. The main CPU is just a
tiny part of the system.
Zane I'm astonished that there doesn't seem to
be a Multics emulator (OK,
the
hardware is the epitome of CISC, but it is one of the true classics).
There isn't quite enough information on the I/O system. A few people
have gotten
as far as trying to get the main CPU to boot.