From: Josh Dersch
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 12:14 AM
I have a bit of spare time again over the next couple
of weeks and I
would like to spend at least a little bit of that spare time getting
Maze War running on my Imlac emulator; this entails first getting the
Maze War "server" code running on a simulated PDP-10. (After this I
hopefully just need to get the Imlac emulator talking to the PDP-10
emulator over a simulated serial port...)
Oooh. Sounds like fun. Did Imlacs get connected to KS-10 ITS systems?
I thought they only talked to KA-10s, but that's more a matter of when
I became familiar with Imlacs (in the EMACS manual for TWENEX). The
cutover from KA to KS was c. 1982.
The Maze War server runs under ITS and I cannot for
the life of me
find a copy of an ITS distribution; the KLH-10 page (and all the
others I've found) link to
ftp://ftp.its.os.org/its/klh10/pi-its-a11110.tar which is dead, and I
don't see it archived elsewhere.
What's the done thing these days for getting ITS
up and running?
I built an ITS under SimH several years ago, using documentation from
Mirian Crzig Lennox, Alan Bawden, John Wilson, and Bj?rn Victor.
Bj?rn's is the site I would recommend most:
http://victor.se/bjorn/its/
Documentation was drying up rapidly when I was doing this. The ITS-Hackers
mailing list is moribund, and lots of things were being removed to avoid
embarrassing old hackers from the AI Lab.
I'll have a look around, but I think I trusted the Web too much at the
time and didn't save local copies of the sites in question.
Rich
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computer Museum
2245 1st Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98134
mailto:RichA at
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