Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-20 Thread Rick Murphy
At 06:47 AM 10/20/2015, Noel Chiappa wrote: > From: Rick Murphy > Lots and lots of fun like that. What an space optimizer would do if > there was one. :) Wow. You did all that by hand? Yup. Lots of work. That's kind of why I find the implication that I don't know what's going on

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-20 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Rick Murphy > Lots and lots of fun like that. What an space optimizer would do if > there was one. :) Wow. You did all that by hand? If so, with a program that big, wouldn't it have made sense to try and write a separate post-processor to do all those optimizations? Surely it

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-19 Thread Rick Murphy
At 01:10 PM 10/19/2015, ben wrote: Since the original email was running simh, does not the emulator have the hardware floating point as a option, so you can free up a bit more memory?. I don't think there's any way to re-purpose the memory used by the FPP emulator. And, to be honest, when run

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-19 Thread Rick Murphy
At 07:07 AM 10/19/2015, Johnny Billquist wrote: By the way, could you describe how you managed to squeeze some memory from ADVENT? And if the first free location is 7, then it sounds like it would be possible to run in 28K. The primary way to cut memory usage was recoding the main functio

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-19 Thread ben
On 10/19/2015 8:56 AM, Rick Murphy wrote: On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, Johnny Billquist wrote: Unless I remember wrong, the space for device drivers is already reserved in FRTS...? Yes. For normal device assignment, you use the command decoder to assign unit numbers to files, which loads the handler

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-19 Thread Rick Murphy
On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, Johnny Billquist wrote: Unless I remember wrong, the space for device drivers is already reserved in FRTS...? Yes. For normal device assignment, you use the command decoder to assign unit numbers to files, which loads the handlers for same. Adventure uses the USR routi

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-19 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-10-19 13:03, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-10-19 12:40, Rick Murphy wrote: At 11:08 PM 10/18/2015, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-10-19 04:58, ben wrote: On 10/18/2015 8:43 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: thus making it also able to run under MULTOS-8. Memory requirements and availabi

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-19 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-10-19 12:40, Rick Murphy wrote: At 11:08 PM 10/18/2015, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-10-19 04:58, ben wrote: On 10/18/2015 8:43 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: thus making it also able to run under MULTOS-8. Memory requirements and availability is a different story, but yes, ADVENT wil

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-19 Thread Rick Murphy
At 11:08 PM 10/18/2015, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-10-19 04:58, ben wrote: On 10/18/2015 8:43 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: thus making it also able to run under MULTOS-8. Memory requirements and availability is a different story, but yes, ADVENT will require the full 32K, as far as I remem

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-18 Thread ben
On 10/18/2015 9:08 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-10-19 04:58, ben wrote: On 10/18/2015 8:43 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: thus making it also able to run under MULTOS-8. Memory requirements and availability is a different story, but yes, ADVENT will require the full 32K, as far as I rememb

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-18 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-10-19 04:58, ben wrote: On 10/18/2015 8:43 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: thus making it also able to run under MULTOS-8. Memory requirements and availability is a different story, but yes, ADVENT will require the full 32K, as far as I remember. I think a few changes where made a few yea

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-18 Thread ben
On 10/18/2015 8:43 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: thus making it also able to run under MULTOS-8. Memory requirements and availability is a different story, but yes, ADVENT will require the full 32K, as far as I remember. I think a few changes where made a few years back, It could be a bit smalle

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-18 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-10-19 03:04, Rick Murphy wrote: At 08:37 AM 10/18/2015, Johnny Billquist wrote: I decided to look into this a couple of days ago, since the basic workings of FRTS includes using interrupts, which is not possible if running under time sharing. That would also imply that it would not be p

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-18 Thread Rick Murphy
At 08:37 AM 10/18/2015, Johnny Billquist wrote: I decided to look into this a couple of days ago, since the basic workings of FRTS includes using interrupts, which is not possible if running under time sharing. That would also imply that it would not be possible to use F4 under RTS-8, which I

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-18 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-10-18 12:37, Rick Murphy wrote: At 01:22 PM 10/17/2015, David Gesswein wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:03:51PM -0400, Rick Murphy wrote: System users guide pg 4-10. Fortran IV. Real time functions and floating point processor functions are not currently supported. The internal device

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-18 Thread Rick Murphy
At 01:22 PM 10/17/2015, David Gesswein wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:03:51PM -0400, Rick Murphy wrote: System users guide pg 4-10. Fortran IV. Real time functions and floating point processor functions are not currently supported. The internal device handlers for high speed reader/punch and

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-17 Thread David Gesswein
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:41:56PM -0600, Joe wrote: > I found the .TIFF manual on another site, and PDF'd it. > Its on my site also http://www.pdp8online.com/pdp8cgi/query_docs/query.pl?Search=etos

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-17 Thread David Gesswein
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:03:51PM -0400, Rick Murphy wrote: > At 02:43 PM 10/16/2015, Joe wrote: > > That would be quite impressive it it actually worked. > Does ETOS support FORTRAN programs, with the FRTS handling > interrupts et al? > It appears to have limited (to the point of probably not b

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-16 Thread ben
On 10/16/2015 9:03 PM, Rick Murphy wrote: At 02:43 PM 10/16/2015, Joe wrote: > .DIR > HELP > ADVNT > !DARN THING DON"T TIME SHARE! Funny, that was my original mission, to get ADVENT running on timeshare. Great minds think alike! Multos8 won't timeshare it either. That would be quite impressi

RE: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-16 Thread Rick Murphy
At 02:43 PM 10/16/2015, Joe wrote: > .DIR > HELP > ADVNT > !DARN THING DON"T TIME SHARE! Funny, that was my original mission, to get ADVENT running on timeshare. Great minds think alike! Multos8 won't timeshare it either. That would be quite impressive it it actually worked. Does ETOS support

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-16 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-10-16 20:43, Joe wrote: -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of ben Sent: 2015-10-15 12:04 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: PDP8 / ETOS .DIR HELP ADVNT !DARN THING DON"T TIME SHARE! Funny, that was my original mi

RE: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-16 Thread Joe
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of David > Gesswein > Sent: 2015-10-14 6:38 PM > To: cct...@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: PDP8 / ETOS > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:06:25AM -0600, Joe wrote: > > > O

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-15 Thread Paul Anderson
I loaned a list member several packs with ETOS on them. They need to be cleaned and inspected before they can be read. I know he is busy and going to be for a while. If anyone needs more info, feel free to contact me off list. Paul On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 2:03 PM, ben wrote: > > .R ETOS >> ET

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-15 Thread ben
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Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-14 Thread David Gesswein
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:06:25AM -0600, Joe wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 09:56:36AM -0600, Joe wrote: > Thanks for the response. I guess not to many people have messed around with > Multos8 or ETOS. > You using my copy or do you have your own? Using emulator or real machine? > I'm trying

Re: PDP8 / ETOS

2015-10-11 Thread David Gesswein
On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 09:56:36AM -0600, Joe wrote: > > Just wondering if any one has any experience setting up an ETOS system on a > PDP-8? > Some. I have it running on my online PDP-8 though am not an expert. > > > I've got most of it working, including adding a second terminal, but can't