From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,29f36805b9a20fe8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-12 22:04:44 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!falcon.america.net!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!howland.erols.net!news-out.worldnet.att.net.MISMATCH!wn3feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc07-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "David Thompson" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <9aa3dd$efb$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: Streams in Ada X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 05:00:34 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.89.135.67 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc07-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 987138034 12.89.135.67 (Fri, 13 Apr 2001 05:00:34 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 05:00:34 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6848 Date: 2001-04-13T05:00:34+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic 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 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! -- - David.Thompson 1 now at worldnet.att.net