Jeff Parsons
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b54253acf9
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Numerous changes to make paper tape configurations more consistent with disk configurations. This allows all devices to share the machine-wide "autoMount" configuration object, now that the PC11 has a proper device name ("PTR"), making its properties distinguishable from those for RK11 and RL11 drives (eg, "RK0", "RL0", etc). And all the tape/disk components now use "Load" functions to connect a tape or disk to a device ("Attach" is deprecated). And finally, all tape/disk components now support operations to deposit their media directly into memory -- although in this case, the names of the operations are necessarily different: "Read" for tape images, "Boot" for disk images. The difference is partly historical convention but also reflects the fact that a "Boot" operation is more limited: paper tapes were designed to be completely loaded into memory, whereas bootable disks are designed for only the first sector to be loaded and executed. Also, paper tape images are now flagged as non-auto-starting, because they often require some user action (eg, loading another tape, setting some switches, etc), whereas disk boot sectors are flagged as auto-starting (see the fStart parameter of the loadImage() interface in the RAM component).
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2016-12-03 14:49:51 -08:00 |
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Jeff Parsons
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fa87224856
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Minor machine description tweaks
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2016-10-23 08:54:35 -07:00 |
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Jeff Parsons
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5d5629c27b
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More README updates, particularly in regard to DEC's Absolute Loader
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2016-10-22 14:21:33 -07:00 |
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Jeff Parsons
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4731531764
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Updated more machine descriptions
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2016-10-22 01:00:53 -07:00 |
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Jeff Parsons
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be98376541
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Updated some machine descriptions
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2016-10-22 00:37:15 -07:00 |
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Jeff Parsons
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ed59b61013
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Fixed the autoMount setting the PC11 demo config, and updated some the demo READMEs
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2016-10-21 22:42:52 -07:00 |
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Jeff Parsons
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d3d847a86c
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More README updates
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2016-10-20 15:43:58 -07:00 |
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Jeff Parsons
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7beaf7ca7b
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More README updates
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2016-10-20 15:32:37 -07:00 |
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Jeff Parsons
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21d91cbcfa
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Fixed the components.xsl for PDPjs machines, and added more instructions, resource links, etc, for the PDP-11 demo machines
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2016-10-20 15:16:22 -07:00 |
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Jeff Parsons
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13a1dedbc7
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Supoprt for tape images in the Absolute Loader format has been moved to the RAM component, so that those images can be preloaded into RAM in the same way that raw bootstrap images can; the RAM component now provides Absolute Loader image parsing as a service to other components that need it (specifically, the PC11 tape reader)
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2016-10-19 11:10:38 -07:00 |
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