Re: rtVAX300 .. need help..

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>]

On 2013-01-10 23:04, Paul Koning wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2013, at 4:33 PM, Rhialto wrote:
>
> > On Thu 10 Jan 2013 at 04:29:36 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > > Just a few short comments. The VAX internal registers are not memory
> > > mapped, ever. That would be against the architecture specification.
> >
> > Well, the thought isn't that strange. Iirc, the PDP-11 has its CPU
> > registers mapped (somewhere in high memory?) and the PDP-10 too (at
> > address 0, iirc).
>
> PDP-11 CPU internal registers appear in I/O address space, with some 
> exceptions: the general registers are not visible there except in the 11/10.  
> (They have listed addresses, but those only work from the console, not from 
> programs, with that one exception.)  And yes, on the PDP-10, the general 
> registers live at memory addresses 0 to 017.

It's more than the 11/10, but it's also really weird, and I don't 
remember if it's front panel only, but you might be right on that one.

        Johnny

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