- This change introduces a full refactor of the interrupt subsystem
for the system board (SBD) and the I/O bus (CIO). Interrupt decode
should now be significantly faster, and not require an expensive
calculation on every step.
- The TIMER device has been split into Rev 2 and Rev 3
implementations.
- The optional 3B2/400 Debug Monitor ROMs can now be booted by passing
the "DEMON" argument to the 3B2/400 simulator BOOT command. Any
of the following will cause the Debug Monitor ROM to be booted
instead of the standard 3B2/400 ROM:
sim> BOOT DEMON
sim> BOOT CPU DEMON
sim> BOOT DEMON CPU
- Formerly, the floppy controller buffered an entire diskette image
in memory using the unit buffer, and flushed it out on detach or
shutdown. This worked well enough, but it's better to have the
device use the SIMH disk sector read and write routines and
behave like a true disk.
- Read Only (Write Protect) logic has also been enabled in the
floppy controller, allowing users to mount images that do not
have write permissions.
- The IF (Integrated Floppy) and ID (Integrated Disk)
device names were poorly chosen. They conflict with built-in
scp commands and mess up the help system. This commit
changes them to IFLOPPY and IDISK, respectively.
NOTE!! THIS IS A BREAKING CONFIG CHANGE!!
