Modifying microcode

Tony Duell ard.p850ug1 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 13:47:36 CDT 2018


On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 7:45 PM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> Given the vagaries of tape, I'm surprised nobody has made a simple TU58
> emulator that can feed the proper microcode bits to the 11/730...
>
> Then again, maybe there's no market for that.

Oh, I think there are. I belive you can use something like an RPi, read
the files off an SD card. It's only an asynchronous serial interface between
the TU58 and the VAX after all.

But I don't want to have more components in the emulator than in the
rest of the CPU....

-tony


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