25 Mar
1998
25 Mar
'98
7:12 p.m.
On Mar 25, 15:54, Greg Lehey wrote:
Subject: Re: Bug in Supnik's emulator?
On Tue, 24 March 1998 at 23:48:33 -0400, Ed G. wrote:
> I don't know whether this is a bug in the factor (1) program (which
> seems unlikely) or the emulator. Can someone try factoring numbers on
> a real pdp-11 and tell me what happens?
>
> On the emulator when I type in a number, factor prints out the
> prime factors, followed by an infinite series of 17s.
I would be very surprised if this was a bug in the
emulator.
In any case, I tried it on the begemot emulator, running 2.11BSD:
[55] root--> /usr/games/factor 6
2
3
[56] root-->
On my PDP-11/23 running 7th Edition, factor works fine:
$ factor 6
2
3
$
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
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