> Yes, I'm definitely glad for the efforts getting it typed and compiling. When I first
> got the source code I wasn't even sure it would be possible to make out everything.
> But emulating an actual PDP-11 would be the technically correct way, and as a bonus,
> MESS would get PDP-11 emulation. It might not hurt to ask on the MESS forum in case
> one of the MESS-focused developers is interested. But if no one wants to do it now,
> it may just have to wait. Or, if you're able to get anything running with it, even if
> it's not fully working, that would certainly be appreciated.
That would correct way would be to emulate a PDP-11 but the differences are 14 opcodes which could be added, you do need to start somewhere and the T-11 CPU is very close a PDP-11 CPU. I guess I may have to see if I can add the PDP-11 core myself, if I have time, or ask the Mess team or even ask the newsgroup where I got the code fixed up at, a couple of them wanted to see if hardware could be added to SimH. Without the newsgroup, it would taken a lot more work to get it running and I would have never been sure if I had got it running, since the first compiler (macro11) I tried didn't create code that matched the output from Bill's listing. The second compiler did make matching listing, but it didn't support Octal, only decimal numbers and a screwy way to store data.
I just not sure how far I would get with the Mess team, since there is a lot of crossover.
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