On 2025-03-09 3:24 a.m., Holm Tiffe via cctalk wrote:
At first any Macroassembler should do the job for coding the bits in the control store, but even AMDASM and friends are laying around somwhere on my disks. I thin the time to talk about "real software" is when the cpu sucessfully adds it's first bytes..
Real hardware, needs a working front panel, and memory. Real software gets toggled in. Did the bootstrap loader that way into eeprom, once. Later I found space in a CPLD that I put the boot loader in. The real computer is it when halts with 3 in the AC, after adding 1 + 2. if you get 5, you are using large values of 2. if you get 42, you have mice problems. :) It takes a lot of work to get here on any cpu. Ben.
