Re: Microcode, which is a no-go for modern designs

2019-01-03 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
And the original analysis paper, "It Takes Six Ones to Reach a Flaw": http://www.acsel-lab.com/arithmetic/arith12/papers/ARITH12_Coe.pdf

Re: Microcode, which is a no-go for modern designs

2019-01-03 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
Also http://www-math.mit.edu/~edelman/homepage/papers/pentiumbug.pdf

Re: Microcode, which is a no-go for modern designs

2019-01-03 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 9:12 PM dwight via cctalk wrote: > I believe that is the one. Intel tried to say it wasn't an issue until it > was shown that the error was significant when using floating point numbers > near integer values. I suspect that the fellow that forgot to include the > mask file

Re: music dec tapes? (paper)

2019-01-03 Thread allison via cctalk
On 01/03/2019 05:22 PM, Kyle Owen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 3:29 PM allison via cctech > mailto:cct...@classiccmp.org>> wrote: > > Those were likely with a PDP12 or LAB-8 with DAC board.  The code > actually is a roughly > digital version of tones in 10 or 12 bit form by writing s

Re: music dec tapes? (paper)

2019-01-03 Thread Kyle Owen via cctalk
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 3:29 PM allison via cctech wrote: > Those were likely with a PDP12 or LAB-8 with DAC board. The code > actually is a roughly > digital version of tones in 10 or 12 bit form by writing sequential > words (waveforms) to > the DAC. > Do you have any information on the AA01-A

Re: music dec tapes? (paper)

2019-01-03 Thread allison via cctalk
On 01/03/2019 09:03 AM, Bill Degnan via cctech wrote: > I have tapes with labels > > 8-152a 8 Music Coding Program Symbolic #1 > 8-152 8 Music Coding Program Symbolic #2 > 8-152 Teddy Bear's Picnic Symbolic > 8-152a Penny Lane Symbolic > 8-152 Joy to the World Symbolic > 8-152 Your Mother Shoul

Re: music dec tapes? (paper)

2019-01-03 Thread Kyle Owen via cctalk
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019, 17:48 allison I don't think this album has been forgotten; I have a copy, and I know > others with copies, too. It seems as though "Unplayed by Human Hands" (both > versions) are less well-known. I would like to work on getting the original > software archived, assuming it's s

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-01-03 Thread Fritz Mueller via cctalk
> On Jan 3, 2019, at 5:17 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > > So in this example, 55230 is the error logging entry point for the RK11 > driver. ... If you have a breakpoint at this location, you'll be able to > capture the controller CSR contents which -- I hope -- will explain why the > system is no

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-01-03 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jan 3, 2019, at 11:51 AM, Fritz Mueller via cctalk > wrote: > > Hi Paul, > >> On Jan 3, 2019, at 7:01 AM, Paul Koning wrote: >> >> I have a Monitor ODT manual from RSTS V4, I should find a way to make that >> available. It's pretty nearly standard ODT, there are a few extensions for

Re: SPACE WAR for PDP-11 - link issues

2019-01-03 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jan 3, 2019, at 3:49 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk > wrote: > > Success sort off! > > ... > > HALT instruction, PC: 42 (BIC R4,SP) > > sim> > > So it does run! I would guess that the lack of proper AD01 and AA11 > hardware in SimH is the reason for the HALT, but it remain to be > in

RE: Which DEC machine made use of th pre Flip-Chip board?

2019-01-03 Thread Rich Alderson via cctalk
From: Noel Chiappa Sent: Friday, December 21, 2018 5:19 AM >> From: Mattis Lind >> I cannot figure out which early machine it comes from. > They're called 'System Modules': > http://gunkies.org/wiki/System_Module > and they were used from the PDP-1 through (I think) the PDP-7; at least, this

Re: SPACE WAR for PDP-11 - link issues

2019-01-03 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
Success sort off! > > the source paper tapes for fpmp are at > http://bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp11/papertapeimages/20040101/tray07 > > TRAY07 > > dec-11-nfpma-a-pr1 8/72; fpmp-11 single precision package; replaces: > dec-11-yqpc-pb; (c)1971,72 > dec-11-nfpma-a-pr2 8/72; fpmp-11 double precision p

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-01-03 Thread Fritz Mueller via cctalk
Hi Paul, > On Jan 3, 2019, at 7:01 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > > I have a Monitor ODT manual from RSTS V4, I should find a way to make that > available. It's pretty nearly standard ODT, there are a few extensions for > mapping addresses Bitsavers has some docs for ODT from contemporaneous versi

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-01-03 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jan 2, 2019, at 8:50 PM, Mueller, Fritz via cctalk > wrote: > > > >> On Jan 2, 2019, at 4:40 PM, Paul Koning wrote: >> >> I'm pretty sure it was there for a long time. It's under memory layout >> suboptions. When it says "any memory layout changes" say yes, then when it >> asks w

Re: music dec tapes? (paper)

2019-01-03 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
I have tapes with labels 8-152a 8 Music Coding Program Symbolic #1 8-152 8 Music Coding Program Symbolic #2 8-152 Teddy Bear's Picnic Symbolic 8-152a Penny Lane Symbolic 8-152 Joy to the World Symbolic 8-152 Your Mother Should Know Symbolic 8-152a Penny Lane 0037-7720, 0170=