Am 18.10.2012 21:05, schrieb Eric Smith:
Holger Veit wrote:
I am also looking for such images, as well as the
boot prom
listing/dump (not the MICROM
contents - well, could be fun as well) beyond the stuff that can
found on bitsavers.
What boot PROM? Unless yours is different than mine, It has no boot
PROM, nor a place to install one if you wanted to.
Looks as if there are several incarnations of "the Pascal Microengine",
or rather, a boot prom is likely on the winchester controller, not the
floppy-only main board.
The WD9693_PasIII_OSref_Jul82.pdf describes a boot PROM at
0xfe00-0xffff, namely when talking about "SB1600 PROM" and "ME1600
PROM"
on pages H-1/H2.
In absence of such a PROM, it's apparently the microcode that issues the
few commands to setup DMAC/FDC for autoloading.
--
Holger