>On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 07:42:33PM -0400, James B. Wilkinson wrote:
>
>>  I've had a problem with our INDY slipping back into the prom when I
>>  type certain keystrokes on the graphics console.
>
>You're using 1.6.x, which means that you're using the ARCS console.  ARCS
>console will abort the running program (i.e., drop back into the prom) when
>certain keystrokes are pressed.
>
>2.0 will ship with a real, full-screen console mode that does not have this
>problem.  Further, there is rudimentary X support for the newport graphic
>board found in most Indys.
>
>I'll make a 2.0 snapshot available later today -- based on the date, 
>the latest
>releng build probably still has the setcontext() problem.

The reason that I'm interested in this is that I'm using the 
Patterson/Hennessy text in my course on computer organization. That 
book is based on the MIPS processor, and we've been using a Windows 
simulator called SPIM. I can talk about assembling a program, and 
SPIM demonstrated that just fine. I can talk about relocation and 
linking, and SPIM is very little help. So I decided to get something 
running on some real MIPS hardware and make them actually do some 
linking and look at the results. Objdump looks like just what I need 
for that. I think this is really going to enhance this course!

I don't have to have this running for a couple of months yet. Is 
there a chance that the 2.0 release will be ready by then? I ask 
because I'm a total novice with NetBSD (lots of experience with 
Ultrix and some with FreeBSD), and doing the install that I did 
wasn't all that much fun. If I hadn't found a bootable CD image on 
the Web, I don't think I could have done it. Or did I miss something 
obvious?


Thanks guys. The students won't be grateful :-) but I sure am.

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If there is one word to describe me,
that word would have to be "profectionist".
Any form of incompitence is an athema to me.
Metathesis??? Don't ax me.
Just between you and I, the grammar used by Americans are getting worse.