These changes facilitate more robust parameter type checking and helps
to identify unexpected coding errors.
Most simulators can now also be compiled with a C++ compiler without
warnings.
Additionally, these changes have also been configured to facilitate easier
backporting of simulator and device simulation modules to run under the
simh v3.9+ SCP framework.
Prior logic attempted to load the desired file from the current default directory and if that failed wrote the in memory boot code image to the desired file and then retried the desired load..
A user can still explicitly load a ROM image with a "LOAD -R romfile.bin" command prior to a BOOT attempt if they want to test or otherwise run with a different ROM.
VAX 11/.750 Boot ROM code makes non-longword memory references to MassBus and Unibus register space. Minor changes were necessary to allow this behavior which was architecturally undefined behavior, but had real code which depended on it.
Added a BOOTDEV option to the CPU to reflect the 4 position boot device selection switch on real VAX 11/750 hardware.
The UBA750 initial state started with the UBA map registers validly mapping the first 256KB of RAM to Unibus space.
Added simulated PCS/WCS memory which boot code on some operating systems (Ultrix and other BSD derived systems) automatically loaded on the VAX 11/750. PCS/WCS was also automatically loaded by the newer versions of the BOOT ROMs.
This is the results of external KDP development activities. The KDP side done by Timothe Litt and DMC and DUP by Mark Pizzolato
Additionally, other PDP10 updates from Timothe Litt
