[HECnet] RSTS/E patches

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Tue Sep 15 10:16:15 CDT 2020


The patches I posted are mostly for both.  The kdj11e.cmd patch is for a problem seen on SIMH that probably can't happen on real hardware.  The nsp1.pat file Tony mentioned is certainly more likely on SIMH but I suspect could happen on real hardware also.  In any case, none of them will create problems on real hardware.

	paul

> On Sep 15, 2020, at 9:20 AM, W2HX via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> Are these patches discussed below only for patching SIMH to fix problems with it? Or are these fixes that are for actual PDP hardware implementations of RSTS?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Tony Nicholson via cctalk
> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2020 6:10 PM
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> Subject: Re: [HECnet] RSTS/E patches
> 
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 7:28 AM Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> I previously created a Github repository for various DEC things, 
>> including updated DECnet/E utilities.  I thought that the RSTS patches 
>> I had posted in the past were there also, but that wasn't the case.
>> 
>> I've added a "patches" subdirectory, which contains the patches I have 
>> collected.  I just added a new one, which fixes a bug encountered when 
>> running SIMH set to be an 11/94.  In that case (and possibly some 
>> other similar variations) RSTS tries to figure out the line frequency 
>> and gets it wrong because SIMH executes much faster.
>> 
>> https://github.com/pkoning2/decstuff is the repository.
>> 
>>        paul
>> 
>> 
> Thanks for this Paul.
> 
> There's also your NSP1.PAT patch to improve data flow using RSTS/E V10.1 under SIMH (posted to the SIMH mailing list in May 2016).
> 
> You'll find it and the NSP1.TXT describing it in my repository at
> 
> https://github.com/agn453/RSTS-E
> 
> in the "decnete" subdirectory.
> 
> I've recently joined HECnet and will be making some of my updates available soon.
> 
> Tony
> 
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> Tony Nicholson <tony.nicholson at computer.org>



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