Re: Streams in Ada

["David Thompson" <david.thompson1@worldnet.att.net>]

Marin David Condic <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> wrote :
> Someone mentioned here a few days ago about the existence of PDP-10
> look-alikes, but I don't think anyone has any evidence of a validated Ada95
> compiler for one of them. It would sure make me nostalgic to have access to
> a PDP-10 for a while & write some programs for it again. (Hmmmmmmm.......
> Maybe I'll get started writing a simulator for it, just for fun & to use up
> all that spare time I have..... :-)

There are two active efforts to write -10 simulators that
have been discussed (extensively) on alt.sys.pdp10
over the past few months, one by Bob Supnik and
one by Timothy Stark, which seem to "nearly" work --
i.e. at this point much of the discussion is along the lines
of "I can boot TOPS-10 and create a filesystem but
running a system utility program XX faults at YY --
was this a bug in the actual program (even on a real -10)
or am I running it wrong (and discussants try to remember
amazingly arcane details of how to use TOPS-10 features,
or those of the KL10 front-end or diagnostic programs)
or is it a very narrow bug in the simulator".

There are also a couple of folks who pop up from time to time
apparently working on an FPGA hardware implementation
(AIR in VHDL) but have not announced any real results.

Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> wrote :
> GCC is currently being ported to it.

By Lars Brinkhoff sponsored by XKL, makers of one workalike.
So it may eventually be possible to compile and run a -10 emulator
(both now written AIUI in Unix-flavored C) on an emulated -10!

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