18 Nov
2017
18 Nov
'17
10:07 p.m.
On 11/18/17 12:34 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
I thought disk (RK05) and tape (magtape)
blocks were different...
Thanks,
Will
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GPG Fingerprint: 68F4 B3BD 1730 555A 4462 7D45 3EAA 5B6D A982 BAAF
If you look here:
http://mercury.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/V6Unix.html#dumpf
Try downloading it and compiling it - if it doesn't work, please let me know;
it'd be worth fixing it so it does work on Linux.
Works fine. Thanks.
The 0th block does seem to contain some PDP-11 binary
- a bootstrap of some
sort. I'll look in more detail in a bit.
Cool. I don't quite no how to
investigate this other than to pore
through the pdp11/40 instruction manual.
From what I can see, it's probably a tp-format
tape: the 1st block contains
some filenames which I can see in an ASCII dump of it:
speakez/sbrk.s
...
Well lookit that. I see it now, too :)
v7 and look at
its content using tm or tp, but then I realized that I
didn't have a device set up for TU56
You don't need to mount it on DECTape drive - it's just blocks. Mount it as
an RK05 image, or a magtape, or whatever.