Whoops, I mistyped the PDP-10 bit definition for bit six; it's 1B29 and not 1B28.  Sigh...

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 1B29  

I looked the Tops-10 DAP flags definitions (in SWIL.MAC); it looks like Tops-10 has it right and Tops-20 has it wrong, viz:

DAP
Bit
Bit Meaning PDP-10
Bit
Tops-20
DAP Symbol
0 Stream ID field present 1B35 DF$SID
1 LENGTH field present 1B34 DF$HLN
2 LEN256 field present 1B33 DF$HL2
3 BITCNT field present 1B32 DF$BCT
4 Reserved 1B31 DF$XX1
5 SYSPEC field present 1B30 DF$SHX
6 More data coming 1B29 DF$MOR

Johnny, can you send me the RSX DAP flag definitions when you get a minute?


On 11/26/22 11:58 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:

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.