Current Status

[PashPaw]

So, I got it to compile. Sort of.

It's not willing to run, however. There are still too many missing symbols for it to be functional. We might want to get a hold of RAND to see if they have anything to help us like more listings.

If not, it's going to take some serious reverse engineering to get it to work. It looks like KMON covers both the supervisor and distributor.

[larsbrinkhoff]

I'm working on RAND, but so far I haven't got anything beyond those two additional documents.

[PashPaw]

Okay. Thanks. The CHM has some documents of historical significance (as you likely know) but trying to get anything out of them is going to be impossible.

Things born digital should be made easily digitally accessible.

[larsbrinkhoff]

Do you have a list? I may have a favor to call in at the CHM.

[PashPaw]

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102734547 https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102679426

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[larsbrinkhoff]

One thing that remains to be done, is to compare the addresses in the new listing with the old. I don't think they match yet.

[PashPaw]

True. Do you think the extra comments could be causing that or something else?

[PashPaw]

This is peculiar. Pg. 41 doesn't seem to be missing any instructions and most of the page's addresses match except for the last few instructions.

[dabridgham]

I don't have the combined file you're assembling but it looks like in the file I typed in I missed one instruction. There's supposed to be a "jsr cvtl1" just before the "aos tint(c)".

[PashPaw]

Thanks. Go ahead and correct it.

I've just been just joining different files together with cat and using a tool included with simh called asc to process the line endings so TOPS-10 can read them properly after using the simulated KA10's paper tape reader (it's a stupid trick that also works with the PDP-11 sims).

I don't know what @larsbrinkhoff is doing to get them in. He's probably using a file he's created on his own and we're coming up with the same results.

Unprocessed (jos_su.mac): jos_su.pt.txt
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Processed (jos_su.pt): jos_su.txt

[PashPaw]

Never mind. Added.

[PashPaw]

On TOPS-10, using + instead of commas seems to produce fewer errors. I might need to see why this is.

I might have to see what the <> notation does.

OH! It tells the compiler and/or loader that it's one program more easily.

[larsbrinkhoff]

All I did was cat page*.mac > joss.mac and then edited joss.mac to have CRLF line endings.

Maybe it's time to go from the separate pageNNN files to a single su.mac?

[PashPaw]

Maybe but the separate files are easier to edit. Here’s a compromise: produce a single file that will be updated when the pages get fixed.

[larsbrinkhoff]

My CHM agent says he's working on it. Especially the first item looks interesting because the description includes "program listing".