I was writing a routine to break out DAP flag bits to aid debugging when
I noticed a possible discrepancy between DAP V5.6 and Tops-20, viz:
DAP
Bit Bit Meaning PDP-10
Bit Tops-20
DAP Symbol
0 Stream Identification Field Present 1B35 HD$SID
1 Length Field Present 1B34 HD$LEN
2 Extended Length Field Present 1B33 HD$LN2
3 Bit Count Field Present 1B32 HD$BCT
4 Reserved 1B31 HD$SEG
5 System Specific Field Present 1B30
6 Not last message of segmented message 1B28
DAP V5.6 reserves bit 4 and defines bit 6 to flag that a segmented
message is being sent and that this is not the last message. In other
words, that there will be another message. Tops-20 is using bit 4 for
this purpose and by rights it would appear that it should be using bit 6.
I will go see if I can't scare up what Tops-10 is doing, but I was
wondering if anyone knew what other OS's are doing.