Michel Adam wrote:
It could very well be that '2000G' was just an
HP internal project designation
for the next version, before someone decided to change the name (marketing ?)
Yep, I agree, that?s how I remember it happening, and in fact we have evidence of this in
our possession. The Access Internals documentation 22687-90020 on page 4-39 has a snip of
source code for the power fail routines and the very first comment references TSB/G.
As for a company (as I recall from Canada) supporting a version called TSB-G, I think this
was also the case. I want to say that their version also supported accounts that started
with an at sign (ie @000-@999). After the 2000 line was ended the source was made
available to existing customers and VARs for the price of $500, as I recall.
Not many took advantage of the opportunity, but HP would allow a VAR to put systems
together and sell them with the TSB software. I may even have a notice here in an HP users
group publication about this.
Access and I assume System were the only versions that required IOP micro-code. And the
descriptions of the micro-coded instructions are in the above-mentioned document along
with the rational for this enhancement.
Now a big ?HIP HIP HORAYYYYY? so glad that last version of the micro-code has been found!
That is fantastic news!
And by the way, the next version of SIMH should run Access without tweaking, at least
under windows. ZIPs are still available for people wanting to play with a pre-release
package. (Yes Jay, still waiting for you to put up an Access system on classicmp, it runs
under SIMH.)
FWIW
Mike Gemeny