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Jeff Parsons b54253acf9 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).		2016-12-03 14:49:51 -08:00
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c1p	More VT100 groundwork	2016-07-27 12:03:12 -07:00
dec	Fixed the LKS Monitor bit	2016-11-08 09:24:01 -08:00
pc	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).	2016-12-03 14:49:51 -08:00
README.md	Bumped version to 1.30 in honor of the PDP11 module that's being integrated, along with my first attempt to use a newer version of the Closure Compiler (ie, the JavaScript version), as well as giving Gulp a try -- although Gulp leaves just as bad a taste in my mouth as Grunt did	2016-09-13 15:33:17 -07:00

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Publication Archive

PC Publications:

CPU Documents
Datasheets
Magazines
Programming Guides
Reference Manuals
Software User and Development Guides (eg, DOS, OS/2, Windows)

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Publications:

PDP-11
VT100

Ohio Scientific's 6502-based Challenger 1P Publications: