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Re: ex- USSR and Soviet Bloc hardware shattered #106940 08/21/16 01:37 PM
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OP shattered Senior Member S Joined: May 2012 Posts: 568 Likes: 10	Wonder if they ever got DEC to agree to support the clone hardware I am (slowly) piecing together the 'cloning history' of pdp-11 and its software, looks like the first clone was made in 1973 (http://www.ineum.ru/m400) followed by several 'waves' of "SM" series machines ('small machines'); f.e. SM-3 (1978) is roughly equivalent to 11/20 and SM-4 (1979) -- to 11/40. The ms1201 and its chipset, however, are wholly original implementations of pdp-11 ISA -- they are close enough to the originals that many of DEC hardware tests apply.

Re: ex- USSR and Soviet Bloc hardware shattered #106941 08/21/16 02:06 PM
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Edstrom Senior Member Joined: Aug 2015 Posts: 406	If I remember correctly DEC had a replace program where they offered to exchange the clones with second hand original hardware, at a good price level, that DEC had obtained when upgrading customers elsewhere. I don't know how successful this program was though. Because I can

Re: ex- USSR and Soviet Bloc hardware shattered #106943 08/21/16 04:09 PM
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OP shattered Senior Member S Joined: May 2012 Posts: 568 Likes: 10	Should have worked well enough, if the customer didn't have custom-designed boards...

Re: ex- USSR and Soviet Bloc hardware

shattered #106962 08/23/16 11:30 PM

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WIP: converted ie15 into a device and made two interfaces for it -- a rs232 slot device, and a standalone driver. Next step -- overlay video output from 'kgd' on top of 'ie15', just as in real life.

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./mess ms1201 -rs232 ie15 -rs232:ie15:rs232 "" -ld

Driver ms1201 (MS 1201.02):
   <root>                         MS 1201.02
     bankdev0                     Address Map Bank
     dl11                         DL11 @ 4.60 MHz
     kgd                          DVK KGD
       gfxdecode                  gfxdecode
       palette                    palette
       scantimer                  Timer
       screen                     Video Screen @ 15.40 MHz
     maincpu                      K1801VM2 @ 4.00 MHz
     pc11                         PC11
     pclk                         Timer
     rs232                        RS232 Port
       ie15                       IE15 Terminal
         beeper                   Beep @ 2.40 kHz
         gfxdecode                gfxdecode
         keyboard                 15WWW-97-006 Keyboard
         maincpu                  ie15 CPU @ 3.08 MHz
         mono                     Speaker
         palette                  palette
         rs232                    RS232 Port
         scantimer                Timer
         screen                   Video Screen @ 15.40 MHz
     vhd                          Virtual Hard Disk

Re: ex- USSR and Soviet Bloc hardware shattered #106983 08/26/16 05:33 PM
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Re: ex- USSR and Soviet Bloc hardware shattered #106984 08/26/16 05:41 PM
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Re: ex- USSR and Soviet Bloc hardware shattered #106989 08/27/16 06:13 PM
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OP shattered Senior Member S Joined: May 2012 Posts: 568 Likes: 10	Chess program (variant of http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/rt/games/chess.sav) checkmates itself in 5 minutes

Re: ex- USSR and Soviet Bloc hardware shattered #107066 09/01/16 10:20 PM
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OP shattered Senior Member S Joined: May 2012 Posts: 568 Likes: 10	De-skeletonized uknc.cpp shows signs of life: This machine was standard equipment in many computer classes in high schools, so there's plenty of educational software and games. There are two existing emulators, one of those is open-source (https://github.com/nzeemin/ukncbtl).

Re: ex- USSR and Soviet Bloc hardware shattered #107115 09/03/16 11:01 PM
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OP shattered Senior Member S Joined: May 2012 Posts: 568 Likes: 10	a bit more life -- self-test is passing

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shattered #107131 09/04/16 09:55 PM

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3rd party IDE interface card currently fails to boot because its ROM tries to set parameters while READ MULTIPLE command is still running:

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[:ide:ide:0:hdd] IDE Read multiple: C=0 H=0 S=1 LBA=0 count=1
[:ide]    2.486286 at ':subcpu' (25444): IDE R                   [:ide] 1f7 == 00d0 (ff2f)
[:ide]    2.486291 at ':subcpu' (25444): IDE R                   [:ide] 1f7 == 0058 (ffa7)
[:ide]    2.486296 at ':subcpu' (25452): IDE R                   [:ide] 1f7 == 0058 (ffa7)
[:ide]    2.486310 at ':subcpu' (25534): IDE R                   [:ide] 1f0 == 0a22 (f5dd)
[:ide]    2.486326 at ':subcpu' (25552): IDE W                   [:ide] 1f2 <- 0add (f522) & 177777
[:ide:ide:0:hdd] ':subcpu' (25552): :ide:ide:0:hdd dev 0 write_cs0 0002 0022 00ff ignored (DRQ) command 20
[:ide]    2.486338 at ':subcpu' (25566): IDE W                   [:ide] 1f6 <- fff6 (0009) & 177777
[:ide:ide:0:hdd] ':subcpu' (25566): :ide:ide:0:hdd dev 0 write_cs0 0006 0009 00ff ignored (DRQ) command 20
<...>
[:ide]    2.490648 at ':subcpu' (25736): IDE W                   [:ide] 1f7 <- ff6e (0091) & 177777
[:ide:ide:0:hdd] IDE Set configuration (1 heads, 0 sectors)

is that supposed to be a valid usage ?

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