Witchy <witchy(a)binarydinosaurs.co.uk> wrote: My hunch is that MV I has a microcode console like 11/750 and 8200, so it's going to be VERY terse and bare-bones. MV II (KA630) has a 64 KB ROM with the console coded in VAX instructions, but you still have single-character commands and fairly minimal subset functionality. T 50 (T, not TEST) is on the VS2000. I know your feeling, I've also been too used to my KA655s for too long. My current day job is implementing a ROM monitor for custom PowerPC products. Being the VAX lover that I am, I designed it to look like a VAX console. I implemented the >>> prompt and the usual commands, though changed a bit since the PowerPC CPU is most definitely not a VAX (unfortunately). It's open source in my CVS, I will post a pointer when the code is a bit cleaner so I'm not embarrassed to show it to the world. MS (you've guessed it right... the example I modeled it after is KA655)