RSTS/E patches - HECnet

15 Sep 2020

The patches I posted are mostly for both.  The kdj11e.cmd patch is for a problem seen on
SIMH that probably can't happen on real hardware.  The nsp1.pat file Tony mentioned is
certainly more likely on SIMH but I suspect could happen on real hardware also.  In any
case, none of them will create problems on real hardware.

	paul

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  On Sep 15, 2020, at 9:20 AM, W2HX via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

 Are these patches discussed below only for patching SIMH to fix problems with it? Or are
these fixes that are for actual PDP hardware implementations of RSTS?

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 On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 7:28 AM Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:

  I previously created a Github repository for
various DEC things, 
 including updated DECnet/E utilities.  I thought that the RSTS patches 
 I had posted in the past were there also, but that wasn't the case.

 I've added a "patches" subdirectory, which contains the patches I have 
 collected.  I just added a new one, which fixes a bug encountered when 
 running SIMH set to be an 11/94.  In that case (and possibly some 
 other similar variations) RSTS tries to figure out the line frequency 
 and gets it wrong because SIMH executes much faster.

 https://github.com/pkoning2/decstuff is the repository.

        paul

   Thanks for this Paul.

 There's also your NSP1.PAT patch to improve data flow using RSTS/E V10.1 under SIMH
(posted to the SIMH mailing list in May 2016).

 You'll find it and the NSP1.TXT describing it in my repository at

 https://github.com/agn453/RSTS-E

 in the "decnete" subdirectory.

 I've recently joined HECnet and will be making some of my updates available soon.

 Tony

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