Subject: [fucich: ***PDP8-SIMULATOR-ON-VAX-VMS***]
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 89 00:17:28 EST

Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 02:26:05 PST
From: fucich at venera.isi.edu
To:   pdp8-lovers-request at mc.lcs.mit.edu
cc:   fucich at venera.isi.edu
Re:   ***PDP8-SIMULATOR-ON-VAX-VMS***
Posted-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 02:26:05 PST

pdp8-lovers,
*************SOURCES SENT BY REQUEST*************

	You need PHY_IO privilege to run the simulator.

	$ R SFLOP2RK
		Input "disk" name = RKA0RKB0.RK8
		Run only once. Writes contents of FLOPIMAGE.DAT
		to "RK05" file.

	$ R PDP8

	You are now in console mode. You can give the following
	commands to simulate the console switches:

	LSR	load switch register
	LA	load address
	LXA	load extended address
	CLEAR	clear all
	CONT	continue
	E	examine
	DEP	deposit
	SS	single step (toggles in/out; successive RETURNs
		will execute one instruction at a time)
	STATUS	show status
	AC	show AC
	MD	show memory
	MQ	show MQ
	SR	show switch register

	Arguments, if any, precede the command; no blanks in between.

	Example:

	To load "1034" into switch register, type

		1034LSR

	To examine switch register:

		SR

	To load and execute bootstrap:

		0LXA
		30LA
		6743DEP
		5031DEP
		30LA
		CLEAR
		CONT

	Now you will get the Keyboard Monitor's dot, and you can proceed
	with any OS8 command, and run any program that you copied from
	your floppy.

	Booting the simulated 8 can be done faster with the command

		BOOT

	^C gets you back to OS8 Keyboard Monitor; ^Y aborts simulator.

	Moving files between OS8 and VAX environment
	********************************************

	VAX8 is a program that emanates from OS8FLOP. It reads/writes
	the "RK05" direct-access file as if it were an OS8 disk, and
	transfers files between it and ordinary VAX files.

	Written by

	Harald Nyman
	AB HASSLE
	S-431 83 MOLNDAL
	Sweden
	tel.: 031-676259

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Received: from AI.AI.MIT.EDU (CHAOS 3130) by MC.LCS.MIT.EDU 31 Mar 89 00:25:44 EST
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 89 00:26:19 EST
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

I have a couple of sites in mind that might be willing to support
FTP-able PDP-8 software.  Thus, I'd like to see what everyone out
there has and compile a list, so that more of us can get what we
are missing, etc.  I'm looking for DECUS library stuff in addition
to standard DEC stuff, so tell us all about it!

       ---Rob

Posted-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 23:03:26 PST
To: "Robert E. Seastrom" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 23:03:26 PST
From: [email-masked]

Rob,
	Between Wally K. and myself we may have the
	full decus library of 8 software.
	I will send out a list of what I have soon.
Val.