This implements the principle of "least surprise", in that users won't
normally expect to start overwriting an existing file on these devices.
Real hardware didn't behave that way. A new (empty) file can always
be created with the -N switch on the ATTACH.
This implements the principle of "least surprise", in that users won't
normally expect to start overwriting an existing file on these devices.
Real hardware didn't behave that way. A new (empty) file can always
be created with the -N switch on the ATTACH.
Removed DEV_NET and fixed DEV_type on various devices.
Support for 64 lines on KL10 FE by default.
Fixed support for 32 lines on DC10.
Support for TYPE 340 Display undocumented functions.
- Make all PDP11, VAX RP and RQ devices autosizing behave similarly
- Generalize the attach help to be specific to the device/system being
attached
- Remove the sim_disk_pdp10_* calls which weren't correct or needed
since sim_disk_attach_ex provides sector size which is used correctly
The sim_disk_pdp10_... API's specifically provide 1024 byte sector
interfaces for 64bit data.
Customize the attach help output to be more appropriate for the devices
in the running simulator and the device who's help is being displayed.
This allows the underlying disk container formats that that sim_disk supports
(VHD, SIMH or RAW) to be accessed from the PDP10 KS10 simulator, and later
on to Rich Cornwell's PDP10-KA, PDP10-KI, and PDP10-KL simulators.
Although these devices interpret a -A switch at attach time, they are not
sequential output devices and thus don't have an ambiguous interpretation
of the switch.
Incorrectly mentioned in #821
The -A attach time switch implicitly means to open files in append
mode.
Some devices used -A to indicate ASCII data or AUTOSIZE of disk or
fixed size tapes - DECtape. These devices are either read only devices
(Paper tape readers or card readers), so explicit forcing of the attach
to be -R avoids unexpected positioning errors. The random access
Disk and fixed sized tapes buffer the container contents in memory
so append mode isn't relevant, but care must be taken to assure that
the buffer reading starts at the beginning of the file without regard
to the explicit open mode.
As reported in #821
Added BASE option to auxcpu to move memory region.
Fix errors in Card Reader/Card Punch translation and operation.
Fixed problems with ITS quantum timer.
Added support for System Concepts DC10 disk controller (Lars).
Fixed errors in Line Printer control codes.
Added support for Lines per page to LP10.
Fixed issues with 7 track tapes on TM10.
Updated user guides
This will not change much, but it may be useful for sane idling depending
on the way the running OS actually uses the interval timer for clock ticks.
Some discussion about this in #713
Avoid the common situation on with this simulator whereby the programmatic
interval timer is being used for intervals which change often. The internal
calibrated timing routines depend on consistent rate for the calibrated device.
As discussed in #699
This avoids a divide by zero which is never right, but it is unclear
what the real hardware did. It wouldn't be useful in any case.
As discussed in #486
Most history routines defined a local sim_eval of the proper length, but the
erroneous ones were fixed length machines that defined an integer variable
instead of an integer array of length 1. The VAX used the global sim_eval.
The changes follow the VAX practice.
As discussed in #378
The fixes include:
1. Tightening up the "magic" code so that it can now tell EXE, SAV, and RIM
formats apart.
2. Skipping the loader itself for both RIM10B and ITS RIM. (PDP10 Macro manual
says that RIM10B always includes the loader.) 3. Distinguishing ITS RIM from
RIM10B by the length of the loader block.
4. Adding the slight differences in processing between ITS RIM and RIM10B.
There is no documentation change. -R or the extension .RIM still invoke the
RIM loader, and the code tells ITS and RIM10B apart.
