KA10: Tenex

[larsbrinkhoff]

What's the problem? I have a sudden urge to see it running. Please send me all the files.

[larsbrinkhoff]

Well, not the files that are available from http://github.com/PDP-10/tenex

[rcornwell]

Pretty much everything I have is available there.

If you get a tenex.sav file built and put on a dectape with dumper and dluser I will gladly give it a try.

[larsbrinkhoff]

I don't know about the DECtape bit, but I'll give it a try.

What's your best shot so far? Which version, etc?

[rcornwell]

Tenex-133 or 134 would probably be my first try. I have tried to link it under Tops 10 but I get errors with linking. Once you get the .sav it will be fun to move it to dectape. I would probably use 151 exec. Give me a linked tenex for KA or KI with RP10 drives, TM10 tape and TD10 dectape and I should be able to build a running system without much trouble. I just can't seem to get the linked tenex.

[larsbrinkhoff]

I ran into a problem right away. I need an STENEX.UNV file. I tried to make it from STENEX.MAC, but it doesn't have a UNIVERSAL directive in it, so MACRO isn't happy about it.

[atsampson]

How about SAILDART's STENEX.MAC[CSP,SYS]? Or there are utilities/stenex.unv files in SRI-NIC and Panda.

[rcornwell]

STENEX.MAC needs to match the version of the monitor being built.

[larsbrinkhoff]

Workaround is to make a file containing UNIVERSAL STENEX, and another one with END. Then assemble with STENEX=UNV,STENEX,END

[larsbrinkhoff]

I tried to assemble TENEX 1.33 and 1.34 sources with TOPS-20 V3 and MACRO 53. This version of MACRO does not work well, and complains ?MCRUVS. If files are edited to SEARCH after TITLE the error goes away. But PROLOG.MAC redefines TITLE to do some trickery, so SEARCH PROLOG must be before TITLE.