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Document:	DEC/X8 User's Guide Monitor/Builder
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Pages:	69
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IDENTIFICATION
PRODUCT CODE!

MAINDEC~X8~DIOAB'D-O

PRODUCT NAME!

DEC/X8 USERS GUIDE

MONITOR/BUILDER
DATE CREATED!

JANUARY 15,

MAINTAINER;

DIAGNOSTIC GROUP

auruons

JOHN VRDBEL

(c)

1972,

DIGITAL EQUIPMENT

1973,

1975

1974,

1975

CORPORATION

THE MATERIAL IN THIS DOCUMENT 13 FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.
DIGITAL EQUIPNENT CORPORATION ASSUMES NO RgSPONSIBILITY
FOR THE USE OW SOFTWARE ON EOUIRMENT HHICH_IS NOT SUPPLIED
BY IT. DIGITAL-EQUIPMENT CORPORATION ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY ERRORS WHICH MAY APPEAR IN THE DOCUMENT.

MAINDEC—XBVDIQABanD

FAMlLY-DF-B SYSTfiMfi

D E-C / X I

iXEROlfiEH

U 3 E R 3

REVISION D

THIS

MANUAL INCLUDES THE COMPLETE oranrxnc

pnoczounss

ron

THE ramevuorse svsvgns exencxsea,

1972:

1975a

DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
MAYNARD: MASS. $1754

1974

PREFACE

DESCRIPTIONS IN THIS DOCUMENT DERTAIN ONLY TO REVISION D OF THE
FOR USERS WHO ARE
DEC/X8 MONITOR/BUILDER (HAINOECnXBRDIOAB-D).
FAMILIAR WITH REV A. REV 8: OR REV C OF DXOMB. THE LIST OF OPERATIONAL
BELOW BETWEEN PEV A AND D SHOULD BE HELPFUL.
THE

DIFFERENCES

IN ADDITION: AM "“" APPEARS AT THE LLFT MARGIN HHEREVER A SIGNIFICANT
"A" ALSO APPEARS IN THE TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHANGE HAS BEEN MADE IN THE DOCUMENT.
RIGHT OF THE NUMBER OF ANY PAGE/PARAGRAPH WHICH CONTAINS A MAJOR CHANGE.

OPERATIONAL CHANGES FROM REV A TO REV 8
nun-Q’--u-npdn-CQCHQCC-ucg-y-uuauuununufiu

REVISION A OF DEE/X5 MODULE ”TCOlDT" IMAINDEC-XB-DITCA-A)
MUST BE PATCHEO AS FOLLOWS TO OPERATE UNDER REVISION B
OF THE DEC/X8 MONITOR/BUILDER.

HARNING:

LOCATION

OLD

NEH

gig-quanta,

I-lq

9-H!!-

0417
542$

724a
3456

vane
7000

THE :coL-J COMMAND HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH THE MORE GENERAL :CDNNul
AND ICLNNFJ COMMANDS ”HERE NN IS THE DEVICE CODE OF THE DEVICE
TO WHICH TTO OUTPUT IS TO BE SHITCHEO.
ICLNN-J MUST BE USED
WHEN SWITCHING TO AN LPOO OR LE-B LINE PRINTER.
:CDNN*J MUST
BE USED FOR ALL OTHER "TIY COMPATIBLE" DEVICES.

THE ERROR REPORT HEADER NON INGLUDES THE RELATIVE MODULE LOCATION
THE ERROR REPORT HEADER
AT NHICH THE ERROR REPORT HAS INITIATEO.
NON APPEARS AS FOLLOWS HHERE "Rch" 13 THE NEWLY ADDED ITEM.
TYPE ERR

IN JFX MQDTMODNAM FLDTN ONTRTNNNN

RPC:NNNN

COOEENNNN

IF THE TTo IS FREE DURINE THE "cc" PHASE.
III-HILL BE ECHOEO ON THE TTo.

BUILDER HA3 AN ADDITIONAL COMMAND IF THE SYSTEM HAS AT LEAST
BK OF MEMORY. 'THIS COMMAND LISTS EXISTING AND EMPTY JOB SLOTS
TO ALLEVIATE THE "GUESSING" AS TO HHAT JOB SLOTS ARE AVAILABLE.
THE SYNTAX IS!

ANY

XEES*!
EMPTY SLOTS!
NN

ETC.

WHERE

DESIGNATES ANY EMPTY JOB SLOT NUMBER.

(x)

KEY

STRUCK ON THE

THE

ADDITIONAL EXTERNAL BUFFERS HAVE BEEN ADDED IN FIELDS 2 THROUGH 7
RANGING FROM 1406 THROUGH 2377. ALSO THE GENERAL DESIGNATOR
FOR THE BUFFER STARTING AT SEED HAS BEEN CHANGED FROM 56F4 To sore.
THE NEH BUFFER DESIGNATDRS ARE!
DEED
14ED
96FO

FOR E=D IHRDHDH 7
FOR EH2 THROUGH 7
FOR ran IHRoucH 7

s ausv.
1p "Ian 15 TYPED 57 THE HSER HHILE THE TTO
HONOR THE "vc" REQUEST As soon As THE 779 :3 FREE.

THE
THE

MONITOR HILL

U8ER Now HAS THE CAPABILITY 0F SHITGHING THE CONSOLE KEYBOARD)
COMMAND IS ItTNNhJ HHERE "NM" 15 THE DEVICE coo: UP THE NEH

CONSOLE KEYBOARD

THIS COMMAND

(TTI).

IS AVAILBLE IN OK

MORE.

PROCEDURES FOR BUILDING VIA THE PMK-OZ CASSETTE HAVE BEEN ADDED.

MONITOR NON DYNAMIGALLY MOQIFIES THE MANNER IN WHICH JOB SLOT$
ROTATED.
HENCE: AT ANY GIVEN TIME A GIVEN JOB SLOT MAY BE MOVED
FROM 2 T0 3 MEMORY FIELDS:
THE

ARE

19.

HAVE

VARIOUS OTHER "TRANSPARENT" IHPRDVEHENTE
BEEN MADE HHICH
EFFICIENT use 0F PROCESSOR TIME.

MAKE EVEN MORE

OPERATIONAL CHANGES FORM REV

TO REV O

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PARAGRAPH 1.6 ON PAGE 1-9 OF THE
HA8 CHANGED To READ AS FOLLOHSg

"PRELIMINARY T551

"DEC/X8 USERS GUIDE"

PROGRAMS

wmay'v-ucgnpmflpfl-fl'-*!Pgu

SYSTEM UNDER TEST SHOULD BE CAPABLE OF
RUNNING ALL APPLICABLE PROCESSOR AND OPTION
TESTS WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON MEMORY DIAGNOSTICS."
THE

MONITOR HAS BEEN CHANGED 10 RANDOM JOB SLOT ROTATION.
EFFECT. HANNER OF RDIAYION: AND TYPEDUTS HAVE NOT CHANGED.
"ROTHRO" or FIELD 1 Is NDH THE CONTROLLING FACTOR EDR SLOT
ROTATION. "ROTHRD" FIELD @ IS USED IN RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION.
THE
THE

III)

OPERATIONAL CHANGES FROM REV C TD REV
.-

---------_q----qq'—-c---. ----------- "--

DOCUMENT AND PROGRAM REFERENCES TO PS/B WERE CHANGED TO 05/8.

pl.

T1E

02.

THE DOCUMENT AND PROGRAM HERh CHANGED TO CORRECT PREVIOUS PROBLEM
NITH "POWER FAIL" (I.E. PDNER FAIL "UMP." AT LOCATION 51624 NAS
CHANGED TO A "HLT"):

l3.

THIS DOCUMENT HAS CHANGED TO
COS 39$ DIAGNOSTIC NEDIU".

IDENTIFY

.4.

THIS DOCUMENT
"PDPiB/E" AND

IDENTIFY COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN THE

MONITOR

HAS
THE

CHANGED IO
"PDFIB/A".

{III}

BUILD COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN "OS/a" AND

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Dw-Q-‘--'--v--Fq—

REV

PREFACE

CHANGES FROM

nun-u”-

I-.3._fiq._—-9.-q--p‘-—~--n-qq

REV B

CHANGES FROM REV 3 TO REV G

(I)

(II)

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CHANGES FROM REV 0 TO REV D

(III).

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CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

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CONVENTIONS USED

IN THE DEC/X6 USERS GUIDE

DEC/X§ BASIC SYSTEM DESCRIPTION
USER KNONLEOOE REOUIREMENTs

1w2§

1!fl
1'!

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
SUPPORTING SOFTNARE REQUIREMENTS
RRELIMINARY TEST REQUIREMENTS

'CHAPTER 2

BASIC SYSTEM DESGRIPTION

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2.1
2:2

mumnunnnmnHOVOW&GGUNGG

“GUI-both)!“
5?

BASIC SYSTEM CONCEPT
MEMORY ALLOCATION
(MEMORY ALLOCATIoN MAP)
MONITOR
4K BASE MONITOR
OK BASE MONITOR
PAGE HERO
SKIP/SERVICE QHAIN

1-5

1‘9
1'9

2n;
2—;
2-2

2-3

2.;
2-:

2-;
2.9

COMMONS

2~4

EXTERNAL BUFFERS
SACRED AREA
MODULE (JOB) SLOTS
'SOPTNARE MODULES (JOBS)
JOB PRIORITIES
ROTATION OF JOB SLOTS
MONITOR INITIALIEER
BUILDER

Zw‘)

USER

2-9

ans
2~5

2—5
2-9
z-Z
2-9
2-9

ACTION

CHAPTER 3

DEC/X8 BUILDING PROCEDURE

I’m-“-0-“

“-1...Qn-u—qqu-nnflg-D-IWW.

PLANNING PHASE
DEC/X8 - 03/8 SYSTEM OONEIGURAIION
MONITOR/BUILDER LOADING AND'GUSTOMIZING
BUILDING PHASE

(IV)

CHAPTER

DEC/X6 RUNNING PROCEDURE

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n-qufluuouqu .u—ufing-ugnq

KEYBOARD COMMANDS

2
3

.b‘b‘.%.b.“bfihfi.&5b&UGMNNNMNNNPHHHPHPH

6
7

8
9

.QC.‘

.C.

2
3

5
6

8
9
1O
11

A.
4.

4.3.2
4.3.3
4.4
4.4.1
4.4.2
4.4.3
4.5
4.6

4.7
4.8
4.9
4.1 a

(DETAILEOI

CALLING THE DEC/x5 KEYBOARD MONITOR
EXITING THE DEC/X8 KEYBOARD MONITOR
INITIALIZING JOBS
RUNNING JOBS
KILLING JOBS
ONvLINE MEMORY MODIFICATION
GENERATE OFF-LINE STATUS REPORT
SNITOMINO CONSOLE TTY INPUT/OUTPUT
ONITCMINO CONTROL TO BUILDER AND BUILDER COMMANDS
SWITCHING CONTROL TO OS/O
SWITCH REGISTER OPTIONS (DETAILED)
SRO: SERVICE OUEUINO MODE
SR1: TIME SHARE MODE OPERATION
SR2: NORMAL REPORTS CONTROL #1
ans: NORMAL REPORTS CONTROL-#2
SR4! ROTATION CONTROL
SR5: MO PEEK CONTROL
SR6: ERROR RETURN CONTROL
SR7-8I ERROR REPORT CONTROL
SR9: JOB ACTION UPON ERROR
SRIO: EXTERNAL BUFFER AS§I$NMENT GONTROL
5R11: DEVICE ADDRESSING OONTROL
MONITOR VARIABLES (DETAILED)
MO PEEK VARIABLES
PERIODIC TIME VARIABLES EOR ROTATION AND STATUS REPORT
ROTATE SLOT SELECTION

TELEPRINTER

REPORTS
NORMA; ORM STATUS REPORT

LONG

SHORT FORM STATUS REPORT
ROTATE COMPLETION REPORT
LOADING THE CUSTOHIEED EXERCISER
STARTING THE CUSTOMIEED EXERCISER
RUNNING THE OUSTOMIZEO EXERCISER
HALTINO THE EXERCISER
SUMMARY OF KEYBOARO COMMANOS
SUMMARY OF SWITCH REGISTOR OPTIONS

IV)

.....

CHAPTER 5

ERROR

INFORMATION

AND

PROCEDURES

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CLASSES OF ERRORS
ERROR PRINTOUTS (REPORTS!
JOB ERROR REPORTS
POWER FAIL ERROR REPORT
08/8 1/0 ERROR REPORTS
BUILDER
ERROR HALT RECOVERY PROOEDJRES
MONITOR 0R BUILDER ERROR MALT
JOB JFx ERROR HALT
PROGRAM HANG RECOVERY
SYSTEM TROUBLESHOOTING (HEOPFUL HINTS)
INTERACTIVE PROBLEMS
SYSTEMS SOFTWARE FAILS ~ DEC/X8 RUNS
-

SCOPE_LODPS

MEMORV PEEKING VIA THE MG

SELECTED PORTION? OF TEE DEC/X8
m-qflnlq-qugnn-QWQQ'W-QQ-g--ggg

MONITOR/BUILDER kl$TlNG
U‘WRQPQF-npg-qg-Qg-ug_q

TABLE OF ERROR HALTS
BU1LDER-OS/B ERROR TABLE

(V!)

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I

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l

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O

CHAPTER

INTRODUCTION
pn—qunnnua-n

FAMILY-OF~B SYSTEMS EXERCISER (DEC/X8) IS A POWERFUL
AND ADAPTABLE MODULAR SDFTHARE SYSTEM DEDICATED TO THE PURPOSE
OF TESTING FAMILYNOFWB HARDWARE IN A SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENT.
THE
MODULAR STRUCTURE OF DEC/X3 ENABUES THE USER TO DESIGN AND
THE

BUILD
AND

THE

UNIQUE OPERATIONAL EXERCISER CONSISTENT
HARDWARE CONFIGURATION AT HAND.

WITH HIS NEEDS

THIS MANUAL INCLUDES THE COMPLETE OPERATINQ
INFORMATION PERTAINING To PARTICULAR
PROCEDURES FOR DEC/X8.
DEC/X8 SOFTWARE MODULES Is PRESENTED IN THE INDIVIDUAL MODULE
DOCUMENTS HHICH ARE.CLASSIFIED UNDER PRODUCT coo: "MAINoec-xa-Dxxxx".

CHAPTER 1 CONTAINS INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION INCLUDING HARDWARE.
SUPPORTING SOFTWARE AND USER KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS. AND AN
OUTLINE OF THE CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS MANUAL.
CHAPTER 2 consxsrs or THAT
AND EXECUTE THE pancanunzs

INFORMATION NECESSARY To UNDERSTAND
CHAPTERS 3. 4 AND 5.

CHAPTER 3 IS THE OPERATING PROCEDURE TO BE USED
CUSTOMIZING THE MONITOR/BUILDER AND IN BUILDING
CONFIGURED EXERCISER.
CHAPTER 4 IS THE OPERATING PROCEDURE
FULLY CONFIGURED EXERCISER.

ERROR

USED

FULLY

IN RUNNING

INFORMATION AND PROCEDURES ARE GIVEN IN CHAPTER 5 AND
REFERENOED ANY TIME THAT AN ERROR OR UNEXPEGTED

SHOULD BE
EVENT

IN
A

OCCURS.

CONVENTIONS USED

IN THE DEC/X8 USERS GUXDE

pqua—‘-.---Ip-Illq---5q-w-cmfifi-Q-OQ-nbuo-nnqw

ARE

THE

FOLLOWING CONVENTIONS

THE

THE TERM "PDP-a/E" REFERS IN ALL CASES TO A PDPua/E: PDP-B/M 0R
PDP-B/F PROCESSOR WITH A STANDARD PROGRAMMER‘S QDNSDLE AND AT
LEAST AK or MEMORY.

THE TERM "PDP-B/E” REFERS IN ALL CASES TO A Pup.5/A
PROCESSOR WITH A STANDARD PROGRAMMER s CONSOLE AND AT LEAST
4K or MEMORY. EXCEPT NREN REFERENCING THE EAE OPTION (X.E.THE
EAE OPTION 15 N01 OPERATIONAL ON A PUPwa/AI.

WHERE A MEMORY LODATIDN IS GIVEN AS FIVE OCTAL NUMBERS OF
FORM “FAAAA”. "F" IS THE MEMORY FIELD. AND "AAAA" IS
THE
ABSOLUTE LOCATION IN THAT FIELD.

TERM "MEMORY" ALWAYS

USED

REFERS

THIS MANUAL.

T0 READ/WRITE MEMDRY.

THE

ANY PROGRAM HALT LOCATION RIVEN IN THIS MANUAL REFERS 10 THE
CONTENT3 OF THE MA INA POP-a. all. A/L 0R PUP-12. TH:
MA or A PDR-A/E SHOULD DISPLAY THE INDICATED ADDRESS PLUS
ONE UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE.

TD ACCOMPLISH THE ACTION "LOAD ADDRESS" DN A POP
12:
THE INDICATED ADDRES5 IN THE LEFT SWITCHES.

THE ACTION "DEPRESS 5TART” XS ACCOMPLIBHED ON A PUP-DIE BY
ON A PDP-12o SELECT "6 MODE": 0595555 1/0 PRESETI
DEPRESSING CLEAR: THfiN CONT.
THEN START L5 WITH THE LEFT SHITGHES 851' To THE STARTING ADDR£55
INDICATED .

SET

ON A Pop-42. THE RIGHT SNITGHRR ARE 70 RE USED FOR ANY or THE
-DEC/X8 SWITCH DPTTDN§A

ALL REFERENCES To ”OS/R" APPLY ALso To "PS/8":

9.
‘

10.

"PS/12".

"OS/12"

DIAGNOSTIC MEDIUM”.

THE FDLLONXNG NDTATIQN5 AND/DR SYMBOLS
TO KEYBOARD/TELEPRINTEfl 1/0.

ARE USED IN REFERENCE

BRACKETS AR: USED Io ENCLOSE USER KEIYBOARD INPUT IN
ANY EXAMPLES NHER: CLARIFIGATION Is NEEDED To DIFFERENTIATE
BETWEEN PROGRAM OUTPUT AND USER INPUT.

DEC/X8 MONITOR NAIIING FOR coMMANn

INPUT.

DEC/X8

BUILDER WAITING FoR coNMANo

INPUT.

osxa KEYBOARD MONITOR NAIIINc FOR COMMAND

05/8 COMMAND

DECDDER HAITING
5'?

ron coMMAND

INPUT.

AND THE "cos awe

HHEN v PRECEDES A LETTER IN A USER COMMAND. THE LETTER
MUST BE TYPED WHILE THE cTRL KEY 19 DEPRE$SED (CONTROL
FOR INSTANCE [TB] IS TYPED av UEHRESSING
CHARACTER).
NHEN T IS USED ALONE IN PROGRAM OUTPUT.
CTRL AND TYPING B.
THE PROGRAM IS INDICATING THAT IT IS READY To READ A
PAPER TAPE.
RESPOND BY DEPRESSING RETURN.
INDICATES THAT THE USER SHOULD DEPRESS THE

RETURN KEY.

INDICATES
KEY.

THAT

THE USER SHOULD DEPRESS

THE

LINE-FEED

INDICATES

THAT

THE

ALTMooE

DEV

REFERS

THE

FILE.Ex REFER$

05/5 FILE NAMES As ALLowEo.

USER SHOULD DEPRESS

03/5 FILE

IN ABSOLUTE aINARv FORMAT,

FILE.SV REFERS 70

08/3 FILE

IN SAVE

.CR FlLEhJ

ESCAPE

STAN3ARD 05/3 DEVICE NAMES.

REFER$ To

FILE.BN

(cons

IMAGE)

FORMAT.

08/8 USERS: RECALL THAT IF FILE-3V Is NOT ON DEVICE
"5Y5": THE CERUN DEV FILE’J COMMAND MUST BE U350
WITH

THE 5Y575M-DEVICE WRITE ENABLED.

l'3

KEY,

DEC/X8

BASIC SYSTEM ORGANIEAIIUN

u—n-up-un-IVQVQ-~ufH-un-‘9wc-uw-

THE FIRST AND
DEC/X8 CDNSISTS OF THREE MAJOR SECTIONS.
PRIMARY SECTION IS THE DEDIXB MONITOR,
MONITOR IS THE SOFTHARE
MAINFRAME AND TRUE "NDRK'HDRSE" OF THE EXERCISER.
IT CONTHDL$
INTERRUPT SERVICING: DEFERRED SERVICE DUEUING. AND

COMMUNICATIONS.

USERREXERCISER

THE SECOND SECTION 15 THE DEC/X8 BUILDER.
BUILDER IS USED ONLY
DURING THE EXERCISER BUIUDING PHASE ANO PROVIDES THE MEANS HITH
UHICH THE USER "INSERTS" SOFTHAR: MODULEs INTO THE DEC/X8
MAINFRAME AND SAVES THE FULLY CONFIGUREO EXERCISER IN SUITABLE
FORM FOR FUTURE USE.
IN 4K SYSTEMS. BUILDER Is NECESSARILY
HOWEVER.
RESTRICTED To PAPER TAPE OR PMK-OZ CASSETTE INPUT/OUTPUT.
UITH 8K OR MORE MEMORY AND AT LEAST ONE STANDARD MASS STORAGE
DEVICE. BUILDER BECOMES VIRTUALLY DEVICE INDEPENDENT HY INTERFACING
DIRECTLY NITH THE OK FROERAMMING SYSTEM. 08/8.
BOTH MONITOR
ANO BUILDER RESIDE ON THE SAME BINARY TAPE (MAINDEC-XQ-DIOAB-D-PBI.

SYSTEMS

THE THIRD AND FINAL SECTION OF DEOMXO OONSISTS OF ALL AVAILABLE
DEC/x5 SOFTWARE MODULES.
EACH OF THESE MODULES IS OEUIONEO TO
EXERCISE A SPECIFIC FUNCTION AND/OR DEVICE ASSOCIATED NITH
FAMILY-OF~O HARONARE.
EAOH MODULE RESIDES ON ITs OHN BINARY TAPE.
HA5 ITS OHN DESCRIPTIVE OOOUMENT. AN0 :3 INCLUDED IN FRODUGT
OODE “HAINDEC~XBvDXXXX".
THE LIST or MODULES AVAILABLE FROM THE
DEC SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION CENTER MAY BE FOUND IN THE UURRENT EDITION OF THE
”PUP- a SOFTHA-RE PRICE LIOT"
IN ADDITION. ALL OBJECT PROGRAMS ASSOCIATED
NITH DEC/X8 ARE AVAILABLE ON 03/5 FORMAT DECTAPE AND LINCTAPE
AND MAY BE ORDERED FROM THE SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION CENTER.
m

1.3

USER KNQNLEDGE REQUIREMENTS
wnun-g—ppwn'nin-n-wunquwfi.

THE OPERATING PRODEDURE5_AND DISCUSSIONS PRESENTED IN THIS
MANUALAASSUME THAT THE U§ER IS FAMILIAR WITH AT LEAST THE
OPERATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE SYSTEM UNDER TEST AS DESCRIBED IN
"INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING” AND THE "SMALL COMPUTER HANDBOOK".
IN ADDITION IF THE OPTIONAL BUILDING PROCEDURES USING 03/8 ARE
UTILIEED. THE USER MUST BE FAMILIAR WITH THE 0813 CONVENTIONS
GOVERNING SYSTEM BOOTSTRAPPING AND KEYBOARD COMMAND INPUT TO THE
05/5 KEYBOARD MONITOR AND COMMAND DECDDER.

1:4

REQUIREMENTS

HARDWARE

PROCESSORS!
IS OPERATIONAL ON THE FOLLOWING DEC PROCESSORS WITH
RESTRICTIONS CITED-

DEC/X5
THE

panczsson

RESTRICTIONS

—,----q"

IPQ'Q-y-am-n

THE CONTENTS OF THE
NOT SAVED UPON INIERRUPT.
JOB WHICH REQUIRES
HENCEI IF
A NON-VOLATILE STEP COUNTER I$ RUNNING:
NO OTHER JOB WHICH NOOIFIES THE STEP
UOJNTER MAY BE RUNNING.

PUP-B

ON A

PDPua WITH EAED

§TEP COUNTER

ARE
AN EAE

PDP'B/I

NONE.

POP-BIL

NONE:

PUP-a/E

ON A

‘K

PQP-fl/E WITH EAE TYPE KEB-Eo

THE

CONDITION OF THE GT FLAG IS NOT RESTOREO
AFTER INTERRUPT. HENCE WHEN CUSTONIEING
A DEG/X3 EXERCISER FOR SUCH A HARDWARE
CONFIGURATION THE ONLY ALLOWABLE DEC/X8
MODULE To BE USED FOR EAE IS “EAEALL”

UleH
L-.

MUST BE

INITIALIEEO TO RUN

IN MODE A

GEO/X8 DOES NOT HAVE THE CAPABILITY

POP-12

HANDLING LING MODE INTERRUPTS.
HENCE.
ANY JOOS WHICH OPERATE WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY
IN LING MQOE MUST OPERATE IN THAT MODE WITH
THE-INTERRUPT SYSTEM OFF.

NOTE!

DEC/X8

IS NOT OPERATIONAL

IN POP-5

PDP-O/S

SYSTEMS.

MEMORY:
A MINIMUM or 4K MEMORY IS REQUIRED: HOWEVER: CERTAIN DEC/X8
CAPABILITIES ARE Lost as NOTED IN APPLICABLE SECTIONS or THIS
MANUAL.
DEC/X8 Is COMPLETELY OPERATIONAL IN 8K AND WILL
UTILIzE UP To AND INDLJDIND 32K.

IT IS ASSUMED THAT IF THE SYSTEM HAS THE EXTENDED MEMORY coN.
IT Is ALSO
TRDL DPTIDN. THAT IT HAS AT LEAST BK OF MEMORY.
ASSUMEO THAT THERE ARE NO MEMORY HOLESI E. G. FIELD a. FIELD 1
AND FIELD 3. BUT NO FIELD 2.

1.5

REQUIRED

I/O:

AN ASRu 33 TELETYPE DR EQUIVALENT DEVICE(S)
IS REQUIRED
FOR KEYBOARD/TELEPRINTER COMMUNICATION AND PAPER TAPE 1/0.
IN SYSTEMS NITH A 05/8 CONFIGURATION: PAPER TAPE I/D I5
NECESSARY DNLY T0 LOAD THE MASS STORAGE MEDIA WITH THE DEC/X8

BINARY TAPES.
4.

OPTIONAL 03/8 CONFIGURATION!

TO UTILIZE THE OPTIONAL BUILDING NETHDD WHICH INTERFACES
WITH THE 3K PROGRAMMING SYSTEM: 03/8: AT LEAST ONE MASS
STORAGE DEVICE FOR WHICH DS/D SYSTEM AND DEVICE HANDLERS
IN ADDITION: THE SYSTEM MUST HAVE AT
EXIST IS REQUIRED.
FDR MORE INFORMATION. REFERENCE
LEAST BK OF MEMORY.
CURRENT 05/8 DOCUMENTATION.
1.5

SUPPORTING SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
”pp-up...an-uygInn-ugqu-Fgflgrlw-ng
.

DEC/X8 REQUIRES NO ADDITIONAL §DRTHARE WITH THE -EXCEPTION OF
THE STANDARD BINARY LDADER.
HOWEVER: IF 03/8 IS USED IN THE
BUILDING PROCESS: A 05/8 SYSTEM HHICH .INCLUDEIS THE ABSOLUTE LOADER
.SV) AND PERIPHERAL INTERCHANCE PROGRAM (PIP. SV) IS
RED I ED.

(ABaLgR.

NOTE:
1I6

ABSOLUTE LOADED AND PIP AR: NEEDED ONI.Y To LOAD THE
DEC/x5 BINARY TAPED ONTO THE SELECTED STORAGE MEDIA.

PRELIMINARY TEST PROGRAM§
aInna-n-Hfinnw'mo-nwa—HIQD

THE SYSTEM UNDER TEST SHQUHD DE CAPABLE OF RUNNING ALL APPLICABLE
PROCESSOR AND OPTION T5513 HITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON MEMORY

DIAGNOSTICS»

I-Q

CHAPTER

OASIC SYSTEM DESCRIPTION
‘‘‘‘‘ w.----w-w——--;g..--

THIS CHAPTER PROVIDES

THAT

INFORMATION DEEMED NECESSARY

TO INTELLIGENTLY USE THE OPERATING PROCEDURES IN CHAPTERS
3:4 AND 5.
INCLUDED IS A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF EACH
SECTION OF THE EXERCISERI
-

BASIC

SYSTEM

CONCEPT

-g—uag-uuu~fiag_--VRQ

DEC/X3 IS A MODULAR SOFTMARE SYSTEM.
THIS IMPLIES THAT THE
TOTAL SYSTEM MAY HAVE MANY UNTOUE SOFTNARE CONFIGURATIONS
DEPENOENT UPON THE TYPE ANS PLACEMENT OF THE VARIOUS SOFTHARE MODULES.
A SOFTHARE SYSTEM STRUCTUREO IN THIS MANNER
CAN BE LIKENED TO A MODULAR HAROHARE SYSTEM IN HHIOH
RREOETINED HARDHARE MODULES MAY BE INSERTEO INTO A PREgcrINEO HARONARE MAINFRAME/INTERFAOE (MITHIN CERTAIN OONSTRAINTS)
TO PRODUCE A DESIRED EFFECT.
TO CARRY THIS ANALOGY FURTHER
HE CAN SAY THAT As TOOLS OF SOME FORM ARE REQUIRED FOR HARO—
HARE MODULE INSERTION. SO MUST THERE BE TOOLS FOR THE
A LIMITED CAPABILITY
INSERTION 0F SOFTMARE MODULES. NAMELY "BUILDER“.
"SNAP" MODULES Is ALSO AVAILABLE IN DEC/X8 THROUGH THE USE
OF THE SLOT ROTATION FUNOTION.
THERE IS. HONEVER. NO
CAPABILITY To REMOVE SOFTMARE MODULES SHORT OF COMPLETE

RECDNPIGURATIDN.
MEMORY

ALLOCATION

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SLOTS) As IT APPEARS IN THE-MEMORY OF A max SYSTEM.
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ON'THE RIGHT. .HEMDRY'PAEES ARE SHONN As HORIzONTAL ROMS
EACH LASELLEO NITH THE FIRST ADDRESS OF THAT PAGE. STARTING
NITH PAGE O (DOOR) AT THE TOP ANO PROGRESSTNG TO PAGE
37 (7000) AT THE BOTTOM.
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TO GET THE TRUE PICTURE OF
GROUPS OF PAGES AND/OR FIELDS.
A SYSTEM NHIOH HAS LESS THAN 32K OP MEMORY. OISREOARO ALL
COLUMNS FOR FIELDS HHIOH DO NOT EXIST.
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2.3

MONITOR
“Gun-g-

IS A ‘K SELF-EXPANOING TO 32K EXECUTIVE AND WITH
ITS VARIOUS EXTENSIONS COMPRISES THE DEC/X8 SOFTWARE
THE DEGREE OF MONITOR EXPANSION
MAINFRAME ANO INTERFACE.
IS OEPENOENT ON THE HIGHEST EXISTING MEMORY FIELD AND
NUMBER AND PLACEMENT OF SOFTWARE MODULES.

MONITOR

THE

MONITOR CONSISTS OF THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS.
BABE MONITOR

IEIROO-EO177I

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BASE MONITOR HAS THE CAPABILITY TO GOMPLETELY OONTROL
OUSTON EXERCISER.
IT§ FUNCTIONO INCLUDE NOOULE SERVICE
OUEUINO. BASIC INTERRUPT SERVICING. ERROR REPORTING. EXTERNAL BUFFER CONTROL ANO KEYBOARD COMMAND INTERPRETATION.
IN THE CASE OF AN OK OR OREATER OYSTEH. LINKAGES ARE ESTABLISHED TO THE BK EASE NoNITOR to EXPAND TO THOSE
CAPABILITIES NEEOEO IN OR OR OREATER OOSTON EXERCISERS.
4K

THE
A

BASE MONITOR

(114Bfl-10177)

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THE BK BASE MONITOR. NHIOH IS ALWAYS LINKED TO THE 4K
BABE MONITOR. HAS THOSE UNIQUE CAPABILITIES NECESSARY TO
CONTROL OK OR GREATER CU§TOM EXEROIBERSI
ITS FUNCTIONS INCLUDE
SLOT ROTATION: STATUS REPORT GENERATION. TIMESHARE USER
SERVIOES AND KEYBOARD COMMAND INTERPRETATION OF OR COMMANDS.

2.3 3

PAGE iERO

(FOOOO-FDI77I

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PAGE EERO OONSISTO or THOSE'CONSTANTS. LINKAGES AND ROUTINEs
SOFTNARE MODULES
NEEDED av MONITOR IN ALL MEMORY FIELDS.
ARE FREE TO USE SPECIFIEO AREA§ OF THIS PAOE As NEOEssARv.
AT
TIME. PAOE EERO IS COPIEO THROUGHOUT ALL or EXISTING
NENOR

ST¢RT
.

2!;

MODULE

SKIP/SERVICE CHAIN

2.3.4

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SKIP/SERVICE CHAIN CONTAINS ALL OF THE INFORMATION
NEEDED BY MONITOR CONCERNING EACH OF THE SOFTHARE MODULES
IN THE EXERCISER.
IN REALITY. THIS CHAIN INCLUDES THE INTERRUPT
SKIP CHAIN: THE DEFERRED SERVICE CHAIN (WHICH IS SIMILAR TO AN
INTERRUPT-SKIP CHAIN: BUT OPERATES ON SOFTWARE VICE HARDWARE
-FLAGS). LINKAGES TO THE MODULES THEMSELVES. AND THE CONTENTS
OF VOLATILE REGISTERS AS SAVED UPON INTERRUPT.
THE

INITIAL LOAD TIME: THI§ CHAIN IS AN ARPARENTLY MEANINGLESS
DURING THE INITIAL STARTING SEQUENCE: IT IS
EXPANDED THROUGHOUT MEMOBT IN $KELETDN FORM.
THEN IN THE
BUILDING PHASE IT IS OUSIOHIlED TO ADCOMODATE PERTINENT
INFORMATION FROM THE SOFTHARE MODULES HHICH ARE INSERTED.

SKELETON.

EACH FIELD SEGMENT or THE SKIP/SERVICE CHAIN DAN HOLD THE
INFORMATION FOR FOUR MODULES.
THE spzcxwic AREA or THE
CHAIN uHICH CONTAINS THE INFORMATION FOR A spscxrxc MODULE

IS BASED ON THAT

ARE

MODULE 5 ASSI§NED PRIORliTY LEVEL.
EXPLAINED LATER IN THIS CHAPTER.

COMMONS

2.3.5

PRIORITIES

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2.3.6

COMMONS CONSISTS OF THOSE ROUTINEE NEEDED DY MONITOR TD
SUPPORT KEYBOARD/TELEPRINTER I/D.
THESE ROUTINES ARE EXPANDED
THROUGH MEMORY AT- START TIME TO ALLOH L.IMITED ACCESS BY SOFTWARE MODULEfi.

EXTERNAL BUFFERS fiFDZDD-E;177I

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THE EXTERNAL BUFFERS ARE AREAS OF MEMORY HHICH MONITOR ASSIGNS
TD SOFTWARE MODULES UPON REQUEST,
MDDULI'S USUALLY USE THESE
AREAS AS DATA BUFFERSo ESRECIALLY IF THE MODULE EX-ERCISES SOME
OF DATA BREAK MASS §TORAGE DEVICE.

SORT

EAOH MEMORY FIELD HAS THO OR THREE EXTERNAL BUFFERS HHIOH ARE DESIGNATED
IN GENERAL FORM AS DEED: 1¢FD AND 56TH.
BITS fl-.5 OF THE DESIGNATOR
INDICATE THE EVEN PAGE STARTING ADDRESS OF THE BUFFER AND BITS
6-D DESIGNATE THE MEMORY FIELD.
ALL EXTI.RNAL
BUFFERS ARE IODDIB) HORD§ LONG.
THE UNIOUE DESIGNATION CODE
FOR EACH BUFFER IS INDICATED ON THE MEMORY ALLOCATION MAP.
BUFFERS 14FD EXIST ONLY IN FIELDS 2 THROUGH 7.
THE SKELETON MONITOR/BUILDER UTILIEES BUFFERS DZODpfiéflflp @216
AND 561% FOR INITIALIZINE AND BUILDING FUNCTIONS.
ONCE AN
EXERCISER IS CDNFIGURED: A5 MODULES ASSION AND USE THESE B-UFFERS.
THE ABOVE MONITOR FUNCTIONS ARE HIPEO OUT

2-!

SACRED

AREA

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THE SACRED AREA IS RESERVED FOR THAT SDFTHARE WHICH
TO THE DEC/X5 SYSTEM.
IN A PAPER TAPE SYSTEM. PART
AREA CONTAINS THE BINARY LDADER.
IN A 03/5 SYSTEM.

IS EXTERNAL
THIS

THE FIELD
AND 1 PORTIONS CONTAIN VITAL SYSTEM LINKAGES AND ROUTINE§I
MONITOR NEVER INTENTIDNALLY CHANGES ANY OF THE SACRED AREA!
HOWEVER, IT SHOULD BE REHEWBLRED THAT CERTAIN DATA BREAK DEVICES
USE THIS AREA OF MEMORY FDR WORD COUNT AND CURRENT ADDRESS REGISTERS.
IN THIS CASE. THE INTEGRITY OF THE SACRED AREA CANNOT BE
GUARANTEED.
D

MODULE

(JOB) SLOTS

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THIS POINT ON: SOFTWARE MODULES MAY SIMPLY BE REFERRED TO
THE SLOTS INTO WHICH JOBS ARE INSERTED ARE CALLED
JOBS.
MODULE SLOTso JOB SLOTS 0R SIMPLY SLOTSI
FROM

As SHOMN ON THE MEMORY ALLOCATION HAP, EACH MEMORY FIELD MAs
TOUR qoa SLOTS.
THE SLOTS-IN EIELO r ARE DESIGNATED JF1:
Ore. Jr: AND IPA.
IN LATER PARTS or THIs MANUAL A JOB SLOT
MAY BE DESIGNATED aY "er" WHERE "F" Is THE MEMORY FIELD OF
THE sLoT AND "x" :5 1. 2. I OH 4.
JOB SLOT MEMORY ALLOOATION Is AS FOLLOMS:

SLOT

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THE MAxIMUM OIz; JOB HMIOH MAY 3: INSERTED INTO A GIVEN
SLOT Is STRICTLY A TUNOTION.OF THE NUMBER 0F MEMORY PAGES
THE QEOISION CONCERNING wHAT JOB OETS
ALLOTED THAT SLOT.
INSEMTEO INTO NHAT SLOT I: MADE OY THE USER DURING TM:
BUILDING PHASE.
2'?

MODULES

SOFTWARE

(JOBS)

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A DEC/X8 SOFTWARE MODULE (JOB)
IS A SUB PROGRAM DESIGNED TO
EXERCISE SPECIFIC HARDWARE FUNCTIONS UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE
THERE ARE THO BAOIC TYPES OF SOFT”
DEC/X8 SDFTHARE SYSTEM.
HARE MODULES: INTERRUPT DRIVEN AND BACKGROUND.
INTERHUPT
DRIVEN MODULES EXERCISE DEVICES WHICH CAUSE PROGRAM INTERROPTS.
THE CONTINUED RUNNING OF THIS TYPE OF MODULE IS DEPENDENT
ON ITS NEXT DEVICE INTERRUPT.
BACKGROUND MODULES ARE
SELF SUSTAINING PROGRAMS AND DO NOT OENEHATE OR REQUIRE

PROGRAM

INTERRUPTO»

SINOE'AT THE TIME

A MODULE I§ PLANNED AND WRITTEN
IS NO HAY TO FREDIOT THE ACTUAL
MEMORY LOCATIONS WHICH THE MODULE HILL OOCUPY. THE MODULE MUST.
BE WRITTEN IN A PAGE RELOCATABLE FORMAT.
ALL MODULES ARE
WRITTEN AS THOUGH THEY HILL OOOUPY MEMORY OTARTINO AT
0206: WHILE IN REALITY THEY MUST OOOUPY MEMORY STARTING AT
3639. 46969 OOOO OR 7209 IN ORDER TO COINOIOE HITH ONE OF THE
EXISTENT JOB SLOTS.

THERE

RELOCATION

NORMALLY:

PAGE
I5 OOHPLETELY TRANSPARENT TO THE
’USER.
HDHEVERA IF THE U953 O-EOIOES TO LOO-K AT THE CONTENTO
OF MEMORY WITHIN A 408: THE DIFFERENCES NOTED BELOW SHOULD
BE EXPECTED BETHEEN REAL MEMORY CONTENTS AND THE CONTENTS
AS SHOWN IN THE MODULE PROORAM LIOTINO.
1.

ALL ADOREOS POINTERS HHIO'H REFER TO AODREOSEO
WITHIN THO NOOOLE ARE CHANGED ACCORDING TO THE

FOLLOWING FORMULA!
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IRRHRI

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(558$)

(OCTAL)

WHERE (AAAA) Ts-THE REAL (ABOOLUTE) ADDRESS. (RRRR)
THE RELATIVE ADDRE§S AS SHOWN IN THE MODULE
PROGRAM LISTING: AND (3853) IS THE FIRST
ADDRESS IN THE JOB SLOT occuwxuo BY THE MODULE.
2.

INSTRUCTION HHICH REFERENCES AN AUTo-INOEX
REGISTER Ts MODIFIED To REFERENCE AN ASSIONED
AUTO~INOEX REGISTER BASED UPON THE JOB SLOT
OCCUPIED As EULLous:
ANY

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MODULE CONTAINS THO SPECIAL SECTIONS IN ADDITION TO THE
ACTUAL EXERCISER PROGRAM.
THE MODULE INTERFACE TABLE PERMANENTLY
RESIDES WITH THE MODULE AND IS PART OF THE INTERFACE HITH
THIS SECTION ALWAYS IS THE FIRST PART OF A MODULE
MONITOR.
PROGRAM AND IS MODIFIED APPROPRIATELY BY MONITOR AND THE
THE OTHER SPECIAL SECTION IS THE BUILDER (OH LOADER)
BUILDER.
CALLING SEQUENCE.
THIS CALLING SEQUENCE
IS USED ONLY HHILE A MODULE IS BEING
THIS
LOADED AND PROVIDES CRITICAL INFORMATION TO BUILDER.
SECTION NEVER RESIOES IN MEMORY WITH THE MODULE.
EACH

JOB PRIORITIES
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THE

SEQUENCE IN WHICH 403$ ARE SERVICEO: BOTH FOR INTERRUPTS
AND HOUSEKEEPING; IS A FUNCTION OF EACH JOE' S PRIORITY.
UNDER NORMAL OPERATING CONDITIONS: THE HIGHER PRIORITY JOBS
ARE SERVICEO FIRST.
JOB PRIORITIES ARE ASSIGNED BY THE USER AT BUILD TIME AND
REMAIN FIXED THEREAFTER.
THE DESIGNATION FOR JOB PRIORITY
IS A THO DIGIT OCTAL NUMBER STARTING AT THE HIGHEST
PRIORITY: DO; TO THE LONESTc 37.
THE RANGE OF PRIORITIES IN
A GIVEN SYSTEM IS DEPENDENT ON THE HIGHEST MEMORY FIELD AS
FOLLOHSI

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2.7

ROTATION 0F JOB SLOTS
—---—!----------—-—--

THE 8K BASE MONITOR HAS THE ABILITY TO CHANGE THE MEMORY
FIELDS OCCUPIED BY A HORIIDNIAL ROW 0? JOB SLOTS (E.G.: RD”
JFII AND THE JOBS WHICH IHEY CONTAIN.
THIS FUNCTION IS
CALLED "ROTATION".

PERHAPS THE BEST HAY To UNDERSTAND HHAT HAPPENS HHEN SLOTS ARE
ROTATED IS To PICTURE THE RESULTS-0F ROTATION AS FOLLONSz
(A 12K SYSTEM 15 SHOHN wITu ALL SLOTS ENABLED T0 ROTATE ONE FIELD)

INITIALLY THE SLOTS ARE IN THE STANDARD DDNVIGURATIDN!
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LET'S ASSUME THAT THE ”RFDBDS" MODULE HA8 LOADED INTO SLOT
JDZ. ,INITIALLY. THIS JOB WOULD BE RUNNING IN FIELD D.
BUT-AFTER ONE ROTATION: JD? WOULD DCCUPY AND BE RUNNING
IN FIELD 1: AND AFTER ANDTNER ROTATION WOULD BE IN FIELD 2.
NHENEVER A SLOT IS IN THE HIGHEST MEMORY FIELD: THE NEXT
THEN THE PROCESS STARTS
ROTATION MOVES IT TO FIELD D.
ONCE

AGAIN.

2'8

HQNITDB

INITIALIZER

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THE

MONITOR INITIALIZER RESIDES IN BUFFER AREA DZUQ AND
VARIOUS MONITOR LINKAGES AND INDICATORS BASED UPON USER
SUPPLIED INFORMATION PERTAINING T0 SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS.
THIS ROUTINE IS USED ONLY ONCE AND WILL BE NIPED OUT BY ANY
JOB WHICH ASSIGNS AND USES BUFFER 923$.
SETS UP

2.9

BUILDER
guy-II--.”

IS THE

TOOL WITH WHICH THE USER INSERTS MODULES INTO
IT HAS THE ABILITY TO USE PAPER TAPE OR PNK-IZ 1/0 ALONE:
HILL INTERFACE DIREGTLY "I?” 03/0 TO PROVIDE VIRTUAL DEVICE
INDEPENDENCE DURING THE BUILDING PHASE.

BUILDER
J08

SLOTS.

NHBN

HANEB
NI H:

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INSERTED INTO A Joe SLUT. BUILDER
CHANGES IN THE MODULE PROGRAM CONCERNEO

NECESSARY

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AUTOINDEX REGISTER REFERENCES;
GROSS PAGE PDINTERSI
DEVICE CODE ASSIGNMENTSI AND
WORD COUNT AND CURRENT ADDRESS REGISTER ASSIGNMENTS.

BUILDER

IN ADDITION:
BBNFIBURBS THE SKIP/SERVICE CHAIN FOR
THE CURRENT JOB AND E$TABLISHES THE NECESSARY cnoas FIELD
THE DIFFERENT FIELD SEGMENTS OF THAT CHAIN.
LINKAGES T0

CONNECT

2.12

USER ACTION
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ALL NECESSARY USER ACTION Is DESCRIBED IN CHAPTERS 3. 4 AND 5.
TO BUILD A CUSTOM VERSION OF DEC/X8. so To CHAPTER I,
RUNNING FROCEDURES ARE GIVEN IN CHAPTER 4. AND CHAPTER 5
CONTAINS ALL ERROR INFBRNAIION AND PROCEDURES.
NooUL E
DEPENDENT INFUBHATIUN Is GIVEN IN THE VARIOUS MODULE DOCUMENTS.

3'?

CHAPTER
OED/x8

BUILDING PROCEDURE

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THE PURPOSE OF THIS CHAPTER 18 TO GIVE
NHIcH MUST BE ACCOMPLISHEO TD
SAVE A CUSTOM VERSION OF OEO/xa.

IN DETAIL THOSE STEPS
PLAN. BUILD AND

SUCCESSFULLY

PROCEDURES FOR RUNNING A CUSTOM EXERCISER AND ERROR RfiCQVERY
ARE GIVEN IN CHAPTERS A AND 5 RESPECTIVELY,

THE

USER MUST BE FAMILIAR HITH ALL INFORMATION CONTAINEO
OHA-PTERO 1 AND 2 BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO USE THE FOLLOWING
IN ADDITION. 1? 05/8 Is To BL USED DURING THE
PROCEDURE.
BUILDING PHASE. THE USER SHOULD FAMILIARIEE HIMSELF NITH THE
OS/a OONv-ENTIONS GOVERNING SYSTEM BOOTSTRARPINO AND KEYBOARD
INPUT To THE OO/O KEYBOARD MONITOR ANO COMMAND DEGODEH.
IN

THIS RRDOEDURE MUST BE FOLLOHEO IN.A OTEA OT STEP FASHION.
OMIT ONLY THO§E STEPS-HHJOH’DO NOT
TO YOUR sITUATION.

APPLY

ALL STEPS IN THIS RROODOURE MAR BE AAOOMRLISHEO IN A fiYSTEM
OTHER THAN THE TAROET BIOTEM PROVIDED THAT SYSTEM HA3 AT LEAST
THE AMOUNT or MEMORY PRESENT IN THE TARGET SYSTEM.

PLANNING PHASE
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THE PURPOSE OF THE FOLLOWING STEPS IS TO DESCRIBE THE PLANNING
HHICH IS NECESSARY TO BUILO AN OPERATIONAL VERSION OF DEC/X8.
1c

DETERMINE HHAT SOFTHARE MODULES APPLY To YOUR CONFIGURATION
USING THE "DEOIXO SOFTHARE HOOULE INOEx" (MAINDEcnx5-OIOAF- AD).

REFERENCING THE MODULE DOCUMENTATION OR THE “DEG/X8 SOFTWARE
MODULE INDEX" {MAINDEOTXO-OIOAP- «DI MAKE NOTE OF THE
FOLLOWING FOR EACH MODULE! 1) MEMORY PAGE REQUIREMENTS
(2 OR QII 2) HHETHER OR'NOT IT IS AN INTERRUPT DRIVEN
MODULE! AND 3) IF IT 15 AN INTERRUPT DRIVEN MODULE:
WHETHER OR NOT ITS INTERRUPT PRIORITY IS CRITICAL. (1.5.;
MUST IT BE ASSIGNED AT 0R NEAR PRIORITY LEVEL DD).

BASED ON THE CONSTRAINT OF THO‘A FADE SLOTO AND THO-2 PAGE
SLOTS HER MEMORY FIELD: DETERMINE IT ALL THE APPLICABLE
IF NOT; IT MAY
MODULES CAN BE INCLUDED IN ONE EXEROISER.
BE NECESSARY TO PLAN AT LEAST THO CUSTOM VERSIONS OF OED/X8.
REFER TO THE "OED/X8 SOFTHARE MODULE INDEX” FOR OUIDANOE CONCERNING OMISOIONS.

LIST ALL

INTERRUPT DRIVEN MODULES IN INTERRUFT PRIORITY ORDER.
CRITICAL MODULES-AT THE HIGHEST PRIORITY LEVELS
POLLOHED BY MOOULE$ FOR HIGH SPEED DATA BREAK DEVICES. THEN
THE REMAINDER OF THE INTERRUPT DRIVEN MODULES.
PLACE

5-1

LAST ENTRY. LIST ALL NON-INTERRUPT
(BACKGROUND)AHODULES.

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THAN ANY INTERHUPT JOB.

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NUMBERD REPRESENT THE ASSIGNED PRIORITY LEVELS NHICH HILL
BE USED LATER IN THE PROCEDURE.
CHECK THE LDHEDT PRIORITY LEVEL ASSIGNED (GREATEST IN
NUMERICAL VALUE} AND ENSURE THAT IT IS NO GREATER THAN THE
LEVEL SHOHN IN THE TABLE BELDN.A$ BASED ON THE HIGHEST
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27

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33
37

IF YOU HAVE EXCEEDED THE MAXIMUM LEVEL: PERHAPS THO
CUSTOM VERSIONS OF THE EXERCISER SHOULD BE PLANNED.
REFER TO THE "DEC/X8 SOFTWARE MODULE INDEX" FOR GUIDANCE CONCERNING
I

If YOUR GREATEST PRIORITY IS LESS THAN THE MAXIMUM INDICATED
ABOVE. YOU MAY REPEAT NON-INTEIRUPT (BACKGROUND) MODULES TO
HDHEVER: CHECK THE DOCUMENT FOR
ACHIEVE THE MAXIMUM LEVEL.
ANY REPEATED MODULE IF THE SYSTEM CONTAINS A POP-Q OR A 4K
RECALL THE
PDP-B/E AND THE REPEATED MODULE EXERCISES EAE.

RESTRICTIONS!

16.

STEP

ON A PDP‘B WITH EAE' THE CONTENTS OF THE
COUNTER ARE NOT SAVED UPON INTERRUPT;

ON A 4K POP-fi/E HITH EAE. THE CONDITION or THE GT FLAG IS NOT
SAVED UPON INTERRUPT. THE ONLY EAE JOB THAT SHOULD BE USED
IN THIS CONFIGURATION IS "EAEALL" INITIALIEED FOR MODE A ALONE-

BESIDE EACH ENTRY IN YOUR LIST.
REQUIRES 2 on 4 MEMORY PAGES,
SITE

NOTE NHETHEH THE MODULE

‘

OHISDIONS.

11.

NOW NOTE EACH ENTRY WITH THE JOB SLOT NUMBER YOU WISH TO
ASSIGN THAT MODULE.
YOU SHOULD ASSIGN JOB SLOTS SUCH THAT A
MAXIMUM OF MEMORY FIELD AND PC SWITCHING TAKES PLACE AS YOU
REFERENCE THE MEMORY ALMOVE FROM ONE PRIORITY TO THE NEXT.
OF COURSE: A JOB SLOT
LOCATION MAP IN CHAPTER 2 AS NECESSARY.
MAY BE USED ONLY ONCE.
RLOALL THAT SLOTS JFi AND JFZ
ARE 4 PAGE SLOTS: AND THAT JPS AND JP4 ARE 2 PAGE SLOTS;

THE FOLLOWING

12.

IS A TYPICAL ASSIGNMENT LIST FOR AN

MODULE

PRIORITY

PAGE

JOB SLOT

uni-Q---

'-”--!-.

9-H.-

“lawn-”q!

vTCDlnT
RFOBDS
RKBDS
HSRHSP
EAEALL
MRIDOA
EAEDP

DO
Di
OZ
OS
O4
95
D6

OPRATE

4
4
4

8N PDP'B/E

SYSTEM.

J12
J61
J11
Jfl4
J92
J14
J93
d13

9
2
2

THIS OOMPLETES THE PLANNING PHASEn.
IF 03/8 IS TO BE
IN THE BUILDING FRASEo-OO TD OTEP 3.2: OTHERWISE GO TO
STEP 3.3.2.

USED
3.2

DEC/X8

osza

SYSTEM GONEIGURAIION

Fw‘flifi—I,Ofiqy‘----Qfifl'fi.'fl".¥flflyfl

THE FOLLOHING STEPS ARE DESIGNED TO AID THE USER IN CONFIGURING A
A 05/8 SYSTEM FOR USE IN BUILDING A CUSTOM VERSION OF DEC/X8.
1.

HAVE 0N HAND; OR IF NECESSARY. CONFIGURE USING STANDARD
03/8 PROCEDURES: A D$IE SYSTEM CONSISTING or AT LEAST THE
FOLLOWING 05/5 PROGRAMS (FILENAME).

ABSOLUTE LOADER (ABSLOR.SVI
PERIPHERAL INTEROHANGE PROGRAM

(PIP.SV)_

USING STANDARD 05/8 PROCEDURES.

BOOTSTRAP THE 08/3 SYSTEM.

AFTER A pznxou c.)

I§ PRINTED:

warrc

ENABLE

ALL

ngvzcas

9: USED.

PLACE THE OED/KB MONITOR/BUILDER BINARY TAPE (MAINDEC-X5~DIOAB~O'PBI
IN THE SYSTEM READER AND TYPE THE FOLLOWING COMMANDS.

.ER ABSLDRtJ
nEPTnssuvtna

(CALL ABSOLUTE LOADER)
(ABSOLUTE LOADER LOADS
BINARY TAPE.)
(MONITORIBUILDER IS SAVED 0N
DEVICE ”DEV” AS FILE DXBMB.SV.
33 BLOCKS IN LENGTH.)

.ISAVE DEV oxaHa~J

5’3

THE PERIPHERAL

CALL

INTERCHANGE PROGRAM AS FOLLOWS.

.CR Plpfil
*5

PLACE A SOFTWARE MODULE BINARY TAPE IN THE SYSTEM READER.
THEN rvp: THE FOLLOWING caungwus unza: "FILE“ :5 THE MODULE
suoar TITLE.

*CDEV:PILE.BN<PTR8IB“3
+r~3
«5

THIS ACTION LOADS THE MODULE BINARY TAPE 0N DEVICE "DEV"

"FILE.BN" WHICH MAY BE FROM ONE To TEN BLOCKS IN LENGTH.
REPEAT THIS STEP FOR EACH MODULE YOU PLAN TO USE.
CHECK THE

DIRECTORY OF DEVICE ”DEV" BY TYPING:

DEDEV8/th
THIS COMMAND SHOULD RESULT IN AT LEAST THE
OUT WHERE "N".IS A NUHEER FROM ONE TO TEN.

DXOMB

.SV

FILE

.BN

XXX FREE

(FOR EACH MODULE)

BLOCKS

RETURN TO THE 03/8
BY TYPING

KEYBOARD

iEvCJ

co TD STEP

FOLLOWING PRINT-

3.3.1,

MONITOR

FILE

MONITOR/BUILDER

LOADING AND CUSTOMIZING

”H‘- ------------- fiQ-IF.Q-'-q—---Q--I-H

THE FOLLOWING STEPS CITE TdE ACTION NECESSSARY TO LOAD AND
CUSTOHIEE THE DEC/X8 MONITOR/BUILDER.
1.

THEN WITH THE
IN A 03/8 SYSTEM: ALL OF STEP 3. 2 MUST BE COMPLETE.
05/8 KEYBOARD MONITOR IN
(-BOOTSTRAP OR RESTART AT
@7655 :1? NECESSARY); TYPE THE FOLLOWING TO LOAD BXBMB. 8V.

CONTROL

EVENTUALLT THE PROCEfiSOR HILL HALT AT 55299..

STEP 3.

IN A PAPER TAPE (0R PHKbOZJ SYSTEM. LOAD THE DEC/XS'MONITQR/BUILDER
TAPE {MAINDEC-XU'UAQAB'DfiPR) USING THE STANDARD BINARY LOADER
TECHNTQUETHE INTT-IAL SETTING OF THE DATA FIELD -13 OF NO
CONSEQUENCE SINCE rasLo SPECIFICATION xs PRESENT ON THE

BINARY TAPE.
1F ANY FIiULER CHARACAERS ARE NEEDED FOR THE CONSOLE TELEPR1NTER
AFTER A CARRIAGE RETURNILINE FEED. DEPOSIT THE NUMBER OF FILLERS
OECTREO IN LOCATION FILLER (C3203).

NOTE:

LOAD ADDRESS 69209.

THE PROGRAM HILL HALI

sew

nlpnzss CONT

THE PROGRAM HILL PRINT!

SR3-B'To THE

THEN oepazss START.
AT

magma.

GDN§OLE TELEPRINTER DEVICE con: (STANDARD: m4).
.

DEC/x5
REVISION 0

MAINDEC-Xa-DIOAB'D
REFER TO THE DEC/XS-USERS-GUIDE “PREFACE" FOR A
DESCRIPTION OF THE CHANGES FROM REV A TO REV 0.
AND

HALT AT 96311.

SET

SRSIB TO THE

DEPRESS CONT.

10.

GON§QLE KEYBOARD DEVICE

DELETED

§-§

CODE

(STANDARD: D3).

BINARY

11.

THE PROGRAM HILL NON PRINTS
HSR?
IF THERE IS NO HIGH SPEED READER: TYPE N AND GO TO THE NEXT
IF THERE IS. TYPE Y AFTER WHICH THE PROGRAM PRINTS:
STEP;
DEV CODE!

TYPE THE 2 DIGIT DEVICE CODE FOR THE HIGH SPEED READER

TSTANOARO:
12.

O1>.

chT THE PROGRAM HILL PRINT:
HSP?

IF THERE IS NO HIGH §PEED PUNcHo TYPE M AND GO TO THE NEXT
IF THERE IS: TYPE Y AFTER WHICH THE PROGRAM PRINTS:
STEP.
DEV CODE:

TYPE THE 2 DIGIT ozvxca coo: FOR THE HIGH
(STANDARD! 92:.

13-

speed PUNCH

THE PROGRAM NILL PRxNI:
EXT HEM?

(0-7)

TYPE THE NUMBER.OF TME HIGHEST EXISTENT MEMORY FIELD

(5-7).

AT THIS POINT. ALL ACTIONS ARE IRREVERSIHLE.
ANY
MISTAKE$ MADE FROM THI37FDINT 0N CAN BE CORRECTED ONLY BY
GOING BACK TO STEP 3.3.1 ANO REPEATING ALL STEPS. UNDER NO
CONDITIONS SHOULD A REsTARI A LOCATION AT Ozzaa OE ATTEMPTED
WITHOUT RELOADING MONITORIBUILDER.

NOTE:

14.

THE PROGRAM HILL MOM PRINT!
I

POP-87
Tr THE PROCESSOR IS A TRADITIONAL POP-a. TYPE v
1: NOT. Tvp: N AFTER HHICH THE PROGRAM PRINTS:

AND GO

TO TH: NEXT

PDP'B/E?
IF

THE PROCES$DR

IS A PDP-B/Eo

§-§

TYPE

DTHERHISE.

TYPE N.

STEP.

15.

16.

THE PROGRAM HILL NC”
TYPE Y IF THE OPTION

ASK IF THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS EXIST.
DOES EXIST. N IF IT DOES NOT.

EAE?

(EXTENDED

PF?

(POWER FAIh

MP?

(MEMORY PARITY)

TS?

(TIME SHARE)

THE PROGRAM HIIL NOW

ARITHMETIC ELEMENT)

AND AUTO RESTART)

PfiINTl

*C
:
17»

TYPE THE FOLLOWING gonMANos.
Ines: 0K2:YJ

THIS TRANSFERS CONTfiOL-TO THE auanan.
13.

THEN THE PRQGRAH PRINTS!

INPUT VIA OSIfi?
Ir You ARE dPERATINg NITH A 051a svmwan AND DESIRE To BUILD
PUSING 08/8 INPUTm TYPE-Y AND-GO TO THE NEXT $TEP.
OTHERWISE
'N AFTER WHICH THE PROGRWM PRINTBI
HSR?
IF YOU DESIRE To BUILQ-USING THE HIGH SPEED READER ONLY,
TYPE Y AND GO To TH; NEXT STEP.
OTHERWISE: TYPE N AFTER
HHICH THE PROGRAM PRINTS:

PMK-zzz
IF YOU DESIRE TO BUILD USING THE PMKHflZ FOR INPUT. TYPE
AND GO TO THE NEXT §TEF.
OTHERWISE“ TYPE N AFTER WHICH

THE PROGRAM PRINTS!
CONSOLE READER ASSUMEDn

TYPE.

19.

THE

wow

PROGRAM ASKS;

OUTPUT VIA 05/8 USING FILE BASED DEVICE?
IF YOU ARE OPERATINE HIrH A 03/3 SYSTEM AND DESIRE TO SAVE
THE FULLY CUSTOMIIEU EXLRCISER AS A ".sv" FILE ON A FILE
OTHERWISE:
BASED DEVICE. TYPE Y AND GO TO THE NEXT STEP.
TYPE N AFTER HHIGH THE PROGRAM PRINTS!
4

NSF?
IF YOU DESIRE TO PUNGU THE BINARY TAPE roa THE CUSTOMIEED
EXERCISER ow THE HIGH SPEED FUNEH. TYPE v AND go To THE
oTHERHI§EI TYPE N AFTER HHICH THE PROGRAM
NEXT STEP.
PRINTS!

PMKIZZ?

IF YOU DESIRE TO ”PUNGH”
AND GO TO THE NEXT §TEPu

THE EINARY TAPE ON TH! PHK'02: TYPE
OTHERWISE: TYPE N AFTER HHIQH

THE PROGRAM PRINTS!

CONSOLE PUNCH ASEUMED.‘
20.

NEXT THE PROGRAM PRINTS!
X

To SIGNIFY THAT

IT 15 READY TO ACCEPT BUILDER COMMANDS.

21.

THE FOLLOWING
OUTPUT

FOR

THE

IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE HAXIMUM TELEPRINTER
STEPS ABOVE.

DEC/X8

OOCOUO

REVISION 0

MAINDEC-Xfl-UJGKB'D
REFER TO THE DEC/X8 USERS GUIDE "PREFACE" FOR A
DESCRIPTIGN OF THE CHANGES FRQM REV A TO REV D.

HSR7£Y3 BEV Oflbtilflil
HSP7EYJ DEV CODEQCRZJ
EXT MEM7(B-7)

C53

POP-B7ENJ PDPwfl/§?CYJ

EAE7EYJ PP7BNJ HP7ENJ TSTCYI
lC'B! OK7EYJ

INPUT VIA 033375“!

CON50¥E
OUTPU

H5R7CN3 iRHKmfl2?[N3
READER A53 MED.
VIA 05/5 U5 NG FILE BASED DEVICE7ENJ'

CONSOLE PUNCH ASSUHED.
X

22.

GO TO STEP 3.4

HSR?[N3

PMKI027CNJ

BUILDING PHASE
.u—n—g—guuggflfl

PURPOSE OF THE FOLLOWING STEPS IS TO CITE THE USER ACTION
INSERT SOFTWARE MODULES INTO THE DEC/X3 MAINFRAME
AND TO SAVE THE RESULTANT CUSTOM VERSION OF DEC/X8 DN BINARY
FORMAT PAPER TAPE (OR PMKRDZ); DR AS A " .SV" FILE DN A 05/8 FILE
DEVICE.
THE

NECESSARY TO

STEP 3.3 MUST BE

IF NECESSARY:
ENSURE BUILDER IS IN CONTROL (X DISPLAYED).
LOAD ADDRESS 63969: THEN DEPRESS START.
THE PROGRAM HILL
HALT AT DéDDD (FDR-DIE MA§§DDBI.
DEPRESS CONT AND TYPE
THE FDLLDHING'COMHANDSJ

BASED

COMPLETE.

II'B! OKTEYI
X

03/8

{BUILDER IN CONTROL).
18

TYPE THE FOLLOWING COMMAND.
xtarl

To a:

U350:

HRITE ENABLE TH: SYSTEH'S DEVICE.

(COMMAND BUILDER To BUILD.)

PRIIDDX IBUILDER HAITS FOR THE JOB SLOT ASSIGNMENT FOR
PRIORITY LEVEL DD.)

IN510

USING THE LIST YOU MADE: SIMILAR TO THE
SHOWN
TYPE THE JOB SLOT DE§IGNATION WHICH OORRE PONDS To PRIDRITY
FOR EXAMPLE: USING
LEVEL DD FOLLDNED BY CARRIAGE RETURN.
OUR SAMPLE LIST!

LéST

PRIIDONCJIZhJ
6.

BUILDER’S RESPONSE AND THE USER'S ACTIDN NDH DEFEND ON THE
IF INPUT IS VIA
METHDD DF INPUT SPECIFIED IN STEP 3.3.18.
05/8: 60 T0 STEP 7.
Ir INPUT IS VIA THE HIGH SPEED
READER: GO TO STEP 8! IF VIA THE CONSOLE READER GO TO STEP 9.1:
OR IF VIA THE PMK-DZ GD TO STEP 9. 2.
~

§‘IU

IF INPUT Is VIA osxa. BUILDER CALLS THE 05/8 DONNAND DECDDER
WHICH PRINTS I“): AFTER NHICH THE USER MUST SFECIFY THE
APPROPRIATE MODULE INPNT FILE NAME AND ITS RESIDENT DEVICE.
USING OUR SAMPLE LIST:

PRIIEUXCJ12~J
ICDEVTT0610T~J

(AN

EXTENSION OF .BN IS ASSUMED BY THE
AND NEED NOT BE SPECIFIED.)

PROGRAM

15 TYPED BY THE USER WHILE THE 03/6 COMMAND DEGODER
THE 03/5 KEYBOARD MONITOR HILL BE CALLED AND "." HILL
BE DISPLAYED.
T0 REQOVER TYPE .CST flflflflflfil AND GO TO STEP 2 ABOVE.
STEP 3 HILL START WITH THE CURRENT PRIORITY.
NOTE!
IF 5°C]
IS IN CONTROL:

OF COURSE 03/8 USERS MAY WANT TO INPUT DIRECTLY FROM THE
USING IHE MODULE BINARY TAPE.
IN THIS CASE:
PLACE THE BINARY TAPE IN THE SYSTEM READER AND TYPE THE

SVSTEM_READER

FOLLDHIN6&

PRITEBXIJ18*J
JCPTRItj
vI~J
-NON DO
8.

STEP 1O.

INPUT

:5 VIA THE HIGH SPEED READER.

PLACE THE APPROPRIATE

MODULE BINARY TAPE IN THE READER AND SIGNAL BUILDER To READ
TYPING CARRIAGE RETJfiN.
SHOULD BEI

THE DEOUDNOE

ON THE TELEPRINTER

PRIIGBNCJthJ
9E~J
NON GO

9.1

TO STEP 10.

If THE PROGRAM HAS A§$HMED THE CONSOLE READER As THE

INPUT

OEVIOE. SRIIOH THE READER To FREE. INSERT THE APPROPRIATE
MODULE BINARY TAPE IN THE READER AND TYPE CARRIAGE RETURN.
THEN szTOR

THE

READER_ID START.

AFTER THE TAPE HAS READ IN AND THE PROGRAM STARTS
AT
PRINTING; IMMEDIATELY SWITCH THE READER TO FHEE.
LEAST ONE COMMAND=ERRDR CAN BE EXPECTED AFTER EACH
CONSOLE READfifl EVOLUTION.
IF THE ERROR RE§ULT5 3N

MOTEL

T
8
TYPE NOR-3
THE

NRIOR HILL GO

TELEPRINTER SEOOENDE AT TRIO POINT NILL RE:
PRIIGEHIJIZ*J
'C*3

new 60 To STEP 1D.
‘

TO THE NEXT PRIORITY LEVEL.

é-Ai

9.2

THE PMK-“Zr

INPUT

AFTER "o" HAS BEEN PRINTED BY THE PROGRAM.
PROGRAM WILL HALT AT LOCATXON $3647.

SWITCH OVER TO THE PHK'E2 (INHIBIT RECORDING)-

Roszrlow TD LEADER cone or THE DESIRED MODULEc.
THEN

IS VIA

PROCEED AS FOLLOWS.
THE

DEPRESS "CONT".

WHEN THE PROGRAM HAS READ THE MODULE BINARY AND NO ERRORS
HAVE OCCURRED; THE PROGRAM HILL HALT AT LOCATION 09992
WITH THE AG!0992.

SWITCH CONTROL TO THE CONSOLE TTY AND DEPRESS "CONT".

NOW 60 TO $TEP 15o

Q'la

10.

ONCE THE MODULE BINARY FILE 0R TAPE IS LOADED AND IF NO
ERRORS HAVE OCCURRED: THE PROGRAM MAY ASK FOR DEVICE CODE.
WORD COUNT AND CURRENT ADDRESS REGISTERS SPECIFICATIONS.
THE
PROGRAM OUTPUTS THE FOLLOWING IN SUCH A CASE.
(THE ENTIRE
SEQUENCE IS SHOWN FOR CLARIFICATION AS IT WOULD APPEAR IF
03/8 HERE BEING USEDAI

PRIIEEXEJlZ'J

*CDEVITCDIOT*J
DCIUVOO
TERI
577B
?E~J
HCITTSA
7th:
CAI7755
Tun:
PRIIE1%

IQSIQ INPUT SHOWN.)
ISTRNDARD DEVICE CODE 76)
ISTANDARD DEVICE CODE 77)
ISTANDARD WORD COUNT 7754)

ISTANOARD CURRENT

ADDRESS

7755)

(READY FOR NEXT MODULE)

THE STANDARD ASSIGNMENT Is ALNAYS INDICATED.
I! THE DEVICE IN THE TARGET SVSTEM USES THE
STANDARD INDICATED. TYPE CARRIAGE RETURN As
SRONN ABOVE.
IF THE SYSTEM USES OTHER THAN
THE STANDARD INDICATED: IYPE THE NEW VALUE
IN THE“3AHE:£DRMIT A? THE STNNOARDI
Ext -4
DCTAL NUMBERSAFOULOHEO BY CARRIAGE RETURN As

FOLLOHSI

*CDEV!f001QTrJ

DCI97QI

-?£979fi~3

O77O
TCD756~J
wcx7754
1:7752~J
CAI7755
Tt7753-J
11.

‘

REPEAT STEPS : THROUEH 19 EOR EACH PRIORITY
LEVEL.
AFTER EACH MODULE :5 LOADED: BUILDER HILL
BUILDER MAY
INCREMENT THE CURRENI PRIORITV BY 1.
INDICATE A PRIORITY DNE'GREATER THAN THE REAL
MAXIMUM. BUT HILL NOT ACCEPT ANY MORE MODULES AT
THAT POINT.
[F A'COMMAND ERROR OCCURs AND THE
PRINTOUTI
I

IS DISPLAYEDA TYPE XiECJ TO RETURN TU STEP 5 AT THE
CURRENT PRIORITY.
IF AN ERROR IS MADE IN ANY
PORTION OF JOB SLOT 0R MODULE QPEGIFICATION
GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO STEP 3.3 AND GOHPLETELY
RELOAD T0 CORRECT THE MISTAKE.
5'13

12.

FOLLOWING IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE TELEPRINTER
OUTPUT FOR THE FIRST PORTION OF THE BUILD OF
AN EXERCISER AS SHOWN IN THE SAMPLE LIJT IN 3.1.
THE INPUT IS VIA 08/5 WITH ALL MODULE FILES
(DEVICE 05K DOES NOT HAVE TO BE SPECIFIED
0N DEVICE DSK.
BY ”DEV" $INCE IT IS THE DEFAULT DEVICE.)
THE

IE'BJ

OKTIYJ

NIB“!

PRIIDBXIJIBUJ
*ET691DT-J
2th:
Dcsflvba
$770
IIbJ
NCI7754
It”!
CA877§5
2th:

PRIIDIXEJDl‘J
QERFDBDShJ
saxaeaa
1th:
@610
Ila]
$620
7th:
@645
TC‘J
HCITTDD
TC'J
CAI7751
TC“:

PRIIDZNEJIi'J
ILRKBDSu!
DCID7§D It“:
0745
?ChJ
D756
?Ct3
NOTE:
NO HO! OH CAI
SPECIFICATION IS REQUIRED SINCE
THE RKD IS A SINGLE GTDLE BREAK DEVICE.
(NON BYPASSING THE OUTPUT FOR PRIDRITES 03 THROUGH D5 THE
END OF THE BUILD LOOKS LIKE THIS!)

PRIDDDHCJDB'J
“CEAEDPtfl

PR1 azxcaxa-n
ace RATE.)
PRIliflXEQOJ
I

THE LAST
THAN THE

PRIORITY INDICATED BY BUILDER IS ONE GREATER
IT I5 IMPOSSIBLE TO INSERT
GREATEST LEVEL.
A MODULE AT THIS PRIORITY BECAUSE ALL EXISTENT SLOTS
ARE OCCUPIED.
5-14

13.

AFTER THE LAST MODULE

INSERTEDc

TYPE:

PRIINNXCQCJ
9

14.

1r THE SYSTEM HAS EK or MEMORY on MERE.
ARE SET TO E AND TY-PET

ENSURE SR 2 AND

ICSRJ
THIS CENERATES A DECVXB STATUS HEPGRT IN LONG EDRH AS
DESCRIBED IN CHAPTER 4.
CHEEK THE CONTENTS OF THIS
REPORT TO DETERMINE THAT TCU HAVE BUILT THE EXERCISER
AS PLANNED.

15. USING THE INITIALIEE (ICIJFXoJ) COMMAND (REFER TO CHAPTER 4),
INITIALIEE ALL MODULE PARAMETERS HHICH YOU HANT TO
LEAVE SET UP PERMANENTLYo
REFERENCE THE MODULE
DOCUMENTS FOR PARAMETER DEFINITIONL

16. .UBING THE

CDT (15903) COMMAND (-REPE R TC CHAPTER 4): MAKE
ANY @THER DESIRED REHMENEUT CHANGES INCLUDING MODULE FRAGRAH

17.

TRANSFER

CONTROL BACK

ICRBJ

to BUILDER BY TYRING:

OKEEYJ

,Now UE ARE READY To
18.

§ATE THE CUSTOM VERSION or DEE/x8.

zr OUTPUT VIA os/a HAS SELECTED IN STEP 3. 3.19 so To STEP 19.
If OUTPUT VIA THE HIEH SPEED PUNCH HAS SELECTED.
so To STEP 26: IF VIA THE PHK—Rz 00 To STEP 21.
OTHERWISE:
TYPE

PROCEED As FOLLOHS.

THE

FOLLDHING!

REP”:
0

THEN TVPEICARRIAGERRETJRN AND TURN ON THE CDN$GLE
'PUNCH.
LEADER FDLEDHED BY A BINARY TAPE DE FIELD 0
OF THE EXERCISER:
THEN TRAILER ARE HUNCHED.
HHEN TRAILER
IS BEING PUNCHED: TURN OFF THE PUNCH TO PREVENT OTHER
TELEPRINTER OUTPUT FROM BEING PUNCHED.

HHEN COMPLETE. THE PROGRAM PRINTS THE NUMBER OF THE
NEXT SEQUENTIAL FIELD: OR IF ALL FIELDD HAVE BEEN
TO PUNCH THE NEXT FIELD; TYPE
PUNCHED. PRINTS X.
DO THIS
CARRIAGE RETURN: THEN TURN ON THE PUNCH.
UNTIL THE CONTENTS OF ALL EXISTENT FIELDS HAVE
THE TAPE MAY BE SEPARATED IN THE AREA
BEEN PUNCHED.
OF LEADER/TRAILER CODE,
NON GO TO STEP 22.
S'LS

PATCHES XV NECESSARU.

19.

1F OUTPUT VxA 03/8 HAS SELECTED 1N STEP 3.3.19:
TYPE THE FOLLOWING COMHANDS.
(ENSURE THAT ALL
APPLICABLE DEVICES ARE WRITE ENABLED.)
XEP*3
UPON ”.".

TYPE ”SAVE

(DEV)

(FILE)"-

‘

.ESAVE DEV UXGEA'J

THE FULLY CONFIGURED fiXERCISER IS NOW SAVED ON DfiVICE
THIS FKLE 15 (16N)*1 OECIHAL
"DEV" AS FILE DXSEA.$V1
BLOQKS IN LENGTH_HHERE "N“ I§ THE HIGHEST HEMORY
TO VERIFY THIS FACT: USE PIP AS FOLLOWS!
FIELD FLUS ONE.
.CR PIP-3

QIDEV50XEEA.SVIL‘J
uxa:a.sv
HHERE

«xxx»

xxx
18

THE NUMBER or BLOCKS AS FOLLOHI:

#:ELD

BLOCK8

W'l‘fi'flQgflWCU‘

gnu-Jug.

HIGHEST

NON

«mutum9‘

To $729

‘- p

22;

5'16

ED.

IF OUTPUT VIA THE HIEH SPEED PUNCH HAS SPECIFIED
3.3.19. TYPE THE FDLLDHING COMMANDS:

IN
'

ZCP“!
D
TURN ON THE HIGH SPEED PUNCH AND TYPE CARRIAGE RETURN.
LEADER. POLLOHED BY A BINARY TAPE 0F FIELD E OF THE
EXERCISER: THEN TRAILER ARE PUNCHED.

WHEN-COMPLETE. THE PROGRAM PRINTS THE NUMBER OF THE NEXT
SEQUENTIAL FIELD. OR IF ALL FIELDS HAVE BEEN PUNCHEDI
PRINTS %.
TO PUNCH IHE NEXT FIELD TYPE CARRIAGE
DO THIS UNTIL THE CONTENTS OF ALL EXISTENT FIELDS
RETURN.
HAVE BEEN PUNGHED.
THE TAPE MAY BE SEPARATED IN THE
NON GO TO STEP 22.
AREA OF LEADER/TRAILER CODE.
21.

IF OUTPUT VIA THE PMK-DZ HA5 SPECIFIED IN 3.3.19:
FDLLDHS.

PROCEED

AS
A.

TYPE

THE FOLLOWING COMMAND!

HEP”)

HILL NALT AT LOCATION @1271.

THE PROGRAM

SWITCH CONTROL TU THE PMKHDZ AND POSITION TO A FREE
AREA OF TAPE.
ANY ACTIONS WITH THE PMKFDZ FROM THIS
POINT
MUST BE WITH THE PMK-DZ RECORD ENABLED.

USING THE Auoxo CAPABILITY or T.HE PMK a2. NOTE THE
cusTonxzzn EXERCISER VERSION INDICATING THE CURRENT MEMORY
FIELD SEGMENT (THE FIRST SEGMENT 15 FIELD 6. THEN FIELD 1.
ETC.. FOR ALL or EXISTING MEMORY).

THE PROGRAM HILL NDN "PUNCH" LEADER.
DEPRESS "CDNTW.
THEN THE BINARY EOR THE DURRENT MEMORY FIELD. THEN TRAILER,
STOP THE PMKvDZ WHILE TRAILER IS BEING PUNCHED.

IF THERE ARE MORE SEGMENTS TO BE PUNCHED. THE PROGRAM
HILL EVENTUALLY HALT AT LOCATION @1671.
IN THIS EVENT
GO BACK TO STEP D To “PUNDH” THE NEXT SEGMENT.

IF THERE ARE NO MORE SEGMENTS To 85 PUNCHED; THE PROGRAM
HILL EVENTUALLY HALT AT LOCATION DSDDD IPDP-B/E MAISDEZI.
IN THIS EVENT: SWITCH CONTROL BACK TO THE CDNfiDLE.

.ON

22.

PROCEDURE.

PROCEED Tu
THIS CDMPLETES THE BUILDING
AND RUN THE CUSTOMIZED EXERCISEH.
CHAPTER 4 T0

LDAD

5'17

CHAPTER
DEC/X8

RUNNING PROCEDURE

—-—---Q‘.‘F.-Q'-fl--‘-q-.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS CHAPTEa IS TO GIVE IN DETAIL THOSE STEPS
WHICH MUST BE ACCOMPLISHED TU LOAD AND RUN A CUSTOM VERSION OF
DEC/x8.
FIRST: DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS PERTAINING TO KEYBOARD
COMMANDS; SWITCH R5913758 OPTIONS: MONITOR VARAIBLES AND
THEN THE LOADING: STARTING AND
NORMAL REPORTS ARE GIVEN.
RUNNING METHODS ARE DESCRIBED.
FINALLY SUMMARIES OF THE
KEYBOARD COMMANDS AND SWITCH REGISTER OPTIONS ARE PRESENTED
FOR EASY

REFERENCE.

INFORMATION AND PROCEDURES CONCERNING ERRORS ARE GIVEN IN

CHAPTER

THE USER MUST BE FAMILIAR HIIH ALL INFORMATION PRESENTED
CHAPTERS 1 AND 2 asroac PROCEEDING.

KEYBOARD

COMMANDS

-----------

(DETAILED DESCRIPTION)

.cW--—-.----—-1_-“Gui—-Iu-v-nuu-q

THIS SECTION OESCRIBES IN DETAIL ALL AVAILABLE DEC/X8 KEYBOARD
COMMANDS AND GIVES EXAMPLES NHERE NECESSARY or THEIR NORMAL
ANY INPUT canons ARE FLAGGED av "?”.
USAGE.
DEPRESS THE "RUBOUT"
on "DEL" KEY To CANCEL A caMMAND.
THIS ACTION NILL RESULT IN A
SYNTAX ERROR.
REFER To A.1.1a IN CHAPTER 1 FOR KEYBOARD/

TELEPRINTER CONVENTIONS.
4.1.1

CALLING THE DEC/X3 KEYBOARD MONITOR
manna—q—quFIfl'HAu—qng-Efllg'flQ-DwIII!-

13 HONORED

IMMEDIATELY ONLY WHEN THE EXERCISER IS
0R ROTATING
JOBS.
OTHERWISE. MONITOR HILL WAIT UNTIL A CONVENIENT TIME TO HONOR THE COMMAND.
WHEN HONORED: [963 TURNS OFF THE INTERRUPT (IF NOT
ALREADY OFF): STOPS ALL JOB-SERVIOINGn AND FINALLY RESULTS IN
”I” BEING DISPLAYEOn
C'CJ "CONTROL C"
NOT BUSY OUEUING

THE

OONSOLE TELEPRINTIER

4.1.2

EXITING THE DEC/X6 KEYBOARD HONITOI'
w-n«nuggpgmgggvg..-qgg‘wuutfiflnu’rrgln-

THO COMMANDS ARE'AVAILABLE FOR EXITINO THE KEYBOARD MONITOR.
TURNING THE INTERRUPT SYSTEM ON: AND RESUHING JOB SERVICING.
1.

:toEJ "EXERCISE" RESOLIS {N THE INTERRUPT BEING TURNED ON
ALSO ANY Joes NHICH
AND IN MONITOR RESUMIN$ JOB SERVICES.
HAVE JUST BEEN PUT IN THE RUN STATE WILL BE STARTED. AND ANY
WHICH HAVE THEIR "COMMAND TO KILL" FLAG SET HILL BE
K LLED.

JTBS

{CTR} "EXERCISE AND EOROE ROTATION" RESULTS IN ALL ACTIONS
SPECIFIED BY IC’EJA AND IN ADDITION FORCES ROTATION AND
AN AUTOMATIC STATUS REBORT.
IF THE SYSTEM HAS ONLY 4K:
ROTATION ANO STATUS REPORTS
'ITRJ FUNCTIONS EXACTLY A3 ICTEJ.
ARE AVAILABLE ONLY IN OK OR GREATER SYSTEMS.

4.1.3

INITIALIEING JOBS
uunvcfi-Q-opqufluqq

IEIJFX~J "INITIALIEE JOB JFK" IS USED TO INITIALIEE JOB
PARAMETERS.
THIS COMMAND HILL TRANSFER CONTROL TO THE JOB
INITIALIEATIDN ROUTINE IHODULE ADDRESS "INIT") WHICH HILL ALWAYS PRINT THE JOB SHORT
AT THE COMPLETION OF
TITLE AND MAY ASK FOR PARAMETER INPuT.
THE INITIALIEATION ROUTINE; THE JOB RETURNS CONTROL TO- THE
KEYBOARD MONITOR.
THE JOB TO BE INITIALTEED MUST BE IN THE
FDR
KILLED STATE: OTHERWISE A §YNTAX ERROR IS INDICATED.
EXAMPLE. THE FOLLDHING IS THE TELEPRINTEH OUTPUT FOR THE REED
DISK HODULE "REDBDS" AS IT WOULD APPEAR IN SLOT Jch
NOTE:
DEPRESSING THE "RUBOUT" OR "DEL” KEY HILL USUALLY CAUSE
A RETURN TO THE FIRST PARAMETER.
:EIJ01*J
Hraaos

A_
a
c
a
a
P

(anon? TITLE)
(PARAMETERS)

to:
can
ran
can
tan
can

BEFORE INITIALIIING A JOB.
FDR PARAMETER DEFINITIONS.
4.1.4

REFER

APPLICABLE MODULE DOCUMENT

THE

RUNNING does
"nut-q—Qq‘fi.

ARE-AVAILABLE Fun RUNNING 4033.

THO

COMMANDS

IERJFXhJ "RUN JOB JFX" RESULTS IN JOB JEX BEING SHITCHED TO
RUN STATE.
THE JOB WILL NOT flE STARTED UNTIL
IE'EJ IS COHMANOED WHICH HILL CAUSE AN EFFECTIVE BRANCH
TD MODULE ADDRESS "RUN”.
THE JOB MUST BE IN THE KILLED
STATE: OTHERNISE A SYNTAX ERROR IS INDICATED.
TO RUN JOBS Jain J02 AND J94. TYPE THE FOLLOWING.
THE

IERJ01~J
IERJDZhl
:IRJOA-J
:rvza
2.

”RUN ALL JOBS” IS AVAILABLE x~ svsrsns HITH 8K OR MORE
IEAR-J
MEMORY AND GAusas ALL EXISTENT 4035 no? ALHEon RUNNING To a: SWITCHED TO THE
RUN srsz.
70 non ALL JDOS: TYPE:
IEARhl
:EvEJ

9'3

KXLLING

JOBS

THO

COMMANDS ARE AVAILABLE FOR

!EKJFX~J "KILL JOE JFK" SETS THE "COMMAND TO KILL" FLAG'IN
JOB JFK.
THE JOB HILL NOT BE KlLLED UNTIL lth: {S COMMANDEO
AND THE JOB HAS THE CHANCE TO REACH A POINT OF EXIT.
TO
KILL JOBS J01. JDZ. AND J04. TYPE THE FOLLDHING.

KILLING

JOBS.

:tKJflin
ICKJO2-J
:EKJa4-J
:Ertfl

IIAKfil "KILL ALL JDB§" IS AVAILABLE ONLY IN SYSTEMS HIIH
AT LEAST 8K OF MEMORY AND SETS THE "COMMAND TO KILL" FLAG
TO KILL ALL JOBs. TYPE!
IN ALL EXISTENT JOBS.

:CAK“!
trot:
4.1.6

ON'LINE MEMORY MODIFICATION
v—Im-Q—quwfifinlq-nnwfi'flfifi‘ln'

IC'D] IS THE BASIC COMMAND USED FOR EXAMINING DR HODIFYING MEMORY.
THERE ARE THO H0053 DF- ADDRESS SPECXFICATION FOR THIS COMMAND.
AB$0LUTE AND RELATIVE.
THE ABSOLUTE MODE SHOULD BE USED HHENEVER
THE ABSOLUTE ADDRESS IS KNOWN (MONITOR ADDRESSES).
THE RELATIVE
MODE SHOULD BE USED IN SPECIFYING MODULE (OH JOB) ADDHESSES.

ABSOLUTE F'ORM
ADDRESS.

THE

IS AS FOLL0H§ HHERE "FAAAA"

IS AN

ABSOLUTE

IE’OFAAAAJ
CCCD
IS THE CONTENTH OE LOCATION FAAAA.

"CCCC"

THE RELATIVE roan REQUIRES

THE

roLLowzncm

IE'OJPXbJ

:RRRR:

FAAAA

CCCC

HHERE "JPX" IS THE JOB NUMBER AND "RRRR" 13 THE RELATIVE
MONITOR THEN
ADDRESS AS IT APPEARS IN THE MODULE LISTKNG.
COMPUTES AND DISPLAYS THE AB$OLUTE ADDREHS ”FAAAA" AND ITS
CONTENTS "CCCC".

AFTER "FAAAA" HAS OE TYPED BY THE USER IN THE ABSOLUTE MODE 0R
"FAAAA" HAS BEEN PRINTED BY MONITOR IN RELATIVE MODE. AND ”CCCC"
DISPLAYEDo THE USER HAS THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS:
1.

RETURN

HA$ BEEN

TO MONITOR

FAAAA

CCCCE‘J

(CARRIAGE RETURN)

DEPOSIT "0000"
FAAAA
FAAAA

IN LOGATION "FAAAA"

COCO

EDDDD’O
(DUMP VERIFY)

DODD

OPEN THE NEXT SEQUENTIAL Locarxon AND EXAMINE

cccccta
OCOC
FAAAAItl)

FAAAA

NOTE!

AFTER MONITOR HA5 PRINTED THE CONTENTS OF A LOCATION
THE USER HAY PROCEED AS CITED IN 1 THROUGH

DV
‘chEI'g
4.1.7

(LINE FEED)

GENERATE OFF-LINE STATUS REPORT
rwWQ—g-.Qoplqunouugq-q-nqgnwn-I

:cs-J GENERATES AN orr LINE-STATUS REPORT; THAT IS. IT 18 FRINTED
uer THE INTERRUPT SYSTEM arr.
NO JOBS ARE scavxceo DURING THI$
WHEN THE REPORT HAS BEEN COMPLETELY DISPLAYED. CONTROL
EVOLUTION.
RETURNS TO THE KETBOARD MONITOR.
THE SYSTEM MUST HAVE AT LEAST
8K or MEHORT.‘ (sn 2 AND U HAVE FURTHER CONTROL.)
4.1.8

SWITCHING CONSOLE TTY INPUT/OUTPUT
ufl“C-q-clfiflflfl'w--!§“-...fi-“-9!!”

HOHEVER. IF
INPUT/OUTPUT IS NDRHALLY ON THE CONSOLE DEVICE.
SVSTEH HAS AT LEAST 8K OF MEMORY AND ANOTHER "TTY COMPATIBLE" DEVICE. TTY
INPUT/OUTPUT MAY BE SHITCHED BETWEEN THE CONSOLE AND THAT DEVICE BY THE USE
OF THE FOLLOWING COMMANOO.
TTY

THE

WARNING!

IF THERE

IS A JOB WHICH EXERCISES THE DEVICE TO BE SELECTED
THE FOLLOHING COMMANDS. THAT JOB MUST BE IN THE KILLED STATE
PRIOR TO THE U55 OF THAT COMMAND.

aY ONE OF

IETNNuJ
ALL KEYBOARD INPUT
HITH DEVICE CODE "NN".

13 SHITCHEO TO THE TTY KEYBOARD
.

IELNN“!
ALL TELEPRINTER OUTPUT IS SNITCHEO TO THE LPOB OR LE'O LINE PRINTER
WITH DEVICE CODE "NN".
THIS COMMAND MUST BE USED UNIQUELY FOR IHE LREO AND LE-B LINE
IEDNN*J
ALL TELEPRINTER OUTPUT IS SWITCHED TO THE TTY COMPATIBLE DEVIOE
THIS COMMAND
OTHER THAN AN LPDO OR LE-B LINE PRINTER WITH DEVICE CODE "NN".
MUST BE USED UNIDUELY FOR ALL DEVICES OTHER THAN AN LPOB DR LE'B LINE PRINTER.

NOTE:

THE NUMBER
OF FILLERS

OF FILLER CHARACTERS AFTER CR-LF MAY BE
IN LOCATION FILLER (DSBDD) PRIOR TO THE

9'5

CHANGED OT DEPOSITINB THE NUMBER
USE OF I‘DNNb] 0R ICLNflgl.

PRINTERS,

4.1.9

SWITCHING CONTROL

BUILDER AND BUILDER COMMANDS

g-‘-"——fi-!'Q'-Q-~I-fl-’F-'R"'--.hF-.P--'-l--~-fifi~‘

IC'BJ
THIS
DKICYJ SWITCHES CONTROL FROM MONITOR TO BUILDER.
COMMAND MUST BE USED WITH DAUTION SINCE BUILDER RESIOES IN EXTERNAL
BUFFER AREAS. THE ONLY TIME THIS COMMAND DHOULD BE USED
IS DURING THE BUILDING PHASE; OR IMMEDIATELY
AFTER LOADING THE CONFIGURED EXERCISER BUT PRIOR TO RUNNING ANT Jflflfi.

ONCE BUILDER

CONTROL!

“N"

Is PWINTED.

THERE ARE FDUD COMMANDS AVAILABLE:

RETURN TO DEGIXQ KEYBOARD MONITOR.

%I'CI

PUT EUILDER IN THE BMILD NUDE.
XIB‘]
THID CDMMAND.£AN BE USED
TO FILL ANY UNUSED JDB 5LDTSI HOWEVER: DfiAFTEfi S‘DHDULD FE REVERENDED.
m

xltshl
PRINT EMPTT JOB SLOTS IREQUINED OK OF MENQRNJ.
EMPTY SLDTDI
NN

WHERE
4.

NN
“NN”

THE

OUTPUT I5:

NN
NN
NN
ETC.
INDICATES AN OPEN OR EMPTY JOB SLOT.

XIPbJ

SAVE THE EXERGITERo
CHAPTER 3-

REFER TO THE BUILDING PROCEDURE

PERHAPS THE MOST OOHH0N2H ASON FOR SHITCHING TO BUILDER ONCE AN
EXERCISER HAS BEEN COMPLE ELY OONPTGURED AND SAVED 13 IO
CHANGE THE JOB PARAMETERS AND SAVE THE RESULT.
THIS :5 ACCOMPLISHED
AS

FOLLOHS:

THE FULLY CONFIDURED EXERCISER.
START AT @3336

LOAD
ID
4

TC)

IKTBI DKTLYI
xtpn:

ISNITDH TD BUILDERI
§$AVE THE EXERCISER)

THE Aeov: PROCEDURE SHOULD ONLI 3: USED av uszns HHo ARE
FAMILIAR HITH THE BUILDING PROOOOUHO.

4.1.1D

SWITCHING OONTROL 70 03/9
C“‘-fl~.fl'H-fi'fi.-dg.-ng'.”

THE FOLLOHINO COMMANDS SHOULD BE USED IF AND ONLY
A 05/3 SYSTEM AND ONLY OT EXPERIENCED USERS.

IF OPERATING UNDER

ICXJ DKTEYJ THIS COMMAND EXECUTE5A JUMP TO LOCATION $7565
WHICH CALLS THE 05/8 KEYBOARD MONITOR BUT DOES NOT SAVE THE
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO REDTART THE EXERCISER-w¢
EXERCIDER IMAGE.
IT MUST BE RELOADED USING THE .CR DXSEA~J TYPE COMMAND.

IENJ DKTETJ THIS CDHMAND EXECUTES A JUMP TO D769D WHICH CALLS
THE 05/3 KEYBOARD MONITOR'AND SAVES THAT PORTION OF THE
EXERCISER NIPED OUT ON THE SYSTEMS DEVICE (MUST BE WRITE ENABLED).
PROVIDING NO OTHER PROGRAMS ARE CALLED WHILE IN 03/50 THE EXERCISER
RESTARTED BY THE START COMMAND .EST D3DDD“).
OTHERWISE:
THE EXERCISER MUST BE RELOADED USING THE pER DXBEA‘J TYPE COMMAND.
49¢

MAY

SHITcH REGISTER

(SR3

OPTIONS (DETAILED DESCRIPTION)

mnw-u,----fiq-w-.--gpuwgq-q ..... mun nnnnn .q-up-n-I-u-

THE VARIOUS SWITCH REGISTER OPTIONS
VIA THE PROCESSOR SWITCH REGISTER.
SWITCHES MUST BE USED.

4.2.1

SRO:

ARE
ON

OONTROLLED av THE USER
POP-12. THE RIGHT

SERVICE OUEUING MODE

nwwfltmu-Q-vfl'Vms-Igfl-flfllflflfl

IN THIS
SETTING SROEE SETS THE PRIORITY QUEUE MODE.
THAN ONE INTERRUPT DRIVEN JOB REQUIRE SERVICE
AT THE SAHE TIHE: MONITOR SERVICES THE JOB WITH THE HIGHEQT
PRIORITY FIRST.
BACKGROUND JOB SERVICING IS SHITGHED AFTER'
ANY OTHER JOB CAUSES AN INTERRUPT.
THIS MODE OF OPERATION
THE MOST DIFFICULT FOR SYSTEM HARDWARE TO
SROBOI

1.
'

MODE. IF MORE

SSOUOTEBE

EEC
2.

4.2.2

SR1:

Sfiflsit
THIS SETS RING OUEUE HOOK.
IN THIS MODE:
IS GRANTED TO JOBS IN A SEQUENTIAL MANNER.
A GIVEN JOB'
PRIORITY HA3 LITTLE OR NO EFFECT ON THIS SERVICING SCHEME.
RING MODE CAUSES INTERACTION TO DEGRADE CONSIDERABLY
AND SHOULD BE COHPARATIVELY LESS DIFFIOULT FOR THE SYSTEM HARDWARE
TO HANDLE THAN PRIORITY MODE.

SERVIC;NG

fxnz SHARE MODE OPERATxON

quq-g-qq-*q-"gqgQa-qu.pyfifl-y‘

Sfilaflz

OPTION

4.2.3

SR2:

ALL JOBS RUN IN EXECUTIVE MODE!
IS'NEVER UTILIEED-

I.E.n

THE

TIME SHARE

Sfiinit
IF THE SYSTEM HAS AT LEAST BK OF MEMORY AND A TIME
SHARE OPTION: ALL JOBS HILL RUN PARTIALLY DR ENTIRELY IN USER“
MODE WITH THE EXEOUTION OF ALL TRAPPED INOTRUOTIONS BEING
CONTROLLED BY MONITOR‘S TIME SHARE USER SERVICE ROUTINE.
THIS
OPTION MAY NOTIOEABLY 5L0" UP THE EXERCISER.
NORMAL REPORTS CONTROL #;

vvdqqp—.qqqflqimn-uvl-QG'VVV“‘U

SRZOO:
IF THE SYSTEM HAS AT LEAST BK OF MEMORY.
NORMAL TELEPRINTER REPORTS ARE ENABLED:
1)
ROTATE COMPLETION REPORT; AND
2)
DEG/KB STATUS REFORT.

SR2!1:

THE FOLLOWING

DISABLES ALL PERIODIC NORMAL REPORTS AND DISREQARDS

155“J REQUESTS.

4.2.4

SR3:

NORMAL

REPORT$.CONTROL #2

CCU-d-fl—uu-qvcw—uu—p-uq-qflmfl-uq

SRSIO:
HHENEVER
LONG FORM.

sax-1:

STATUS REPORT IS GENERATEDa

STATUS REPORTS “ILL 95 GENERATED

WILL BE

SHORT FORM.
I

4.2.5

8R4:

ROTATION CONTROL

.nlfi-q-np-gfiuflwu-qqgvfl

SR4nM:
1F THE SYSTEM HA5 AT LEAOT OK OT MEMORY. PERIODIC SLOT
-ROTATION IS ENABLED:

SR4si:

SR5:

ROTATION IS OISAOLEOu

PEEK CONTROL

fl-Q'w-Ip-QFQPEIJI-qonfl'!

4.2.7

SR5lO3
HARDWARE ALLOWING:
AND REOTORED FOR EACH JOB.

SRSQ18
CAUTION MUST BE=EXEROIOEO IN THE UOE OF THIS OPTION.
DO NOT SET SR! TO A I IF ANY JOB HHIOH UTILIEES THE MO IS IN
THE RUN STATE.
SR! HHEN SET TO A 1 FORCES THE CONTENT? OF
THE ADDRESS SPECIFIED IN LOCATION MOAOOR(OO174) IN THE
FIELD SPECIFIEQ BY THE CDF INSTRUCTION IN LOCATION HOFELDIO0173)
TO BE PLACED IN THE "D HHENEVER MONITOR CHANGES JOB SERVIOESN
THE PREVIOUS CONTENT$ OF THE HO ARE LOST.

THE CONTENTS OF THE MO ARE PRESERVED

ERROR RETURN CONTROL

SR6!

awn-—g—qgwpvau-u-mlflmfiflflfl

SRéaO:
EXIT TO

saoams
ALL FATAL
nzsqu IN A HALT.
ALL NON-FATAL ERRORS
TURN OFF THE INTERRUPT SYSTEM AND RETURN To THE'KEYBOARD
TO CONTINUE. use THE :c'an COMMAND.
MONITOR cvc STATE).

ALL FATAL ERRORS RESULT IN A HALT.
NON-FATAL
THE JOB IN ERROR WHICH THEN CONTINUES.

ERRORS

SR7-8l

ERROR REPORT CONTROL

Q--‘n'uuq‘qflflflq-unfiQCFEQNQMC

SR7-88OOS
REPORT ALk ERRORS
DATA ERRORS HITH TALKY:

INOLUOING ALL BAD DATA FOR

SR7-B!flll

REPORT ALL ERROR$a
0f FAILINO DATA HITH TALLY.

BUT-ONLY THE FIRST FOUR $ET$

SR7-B81OI
THE TALLY

BUT

SR7-B=118

REPORT ALL ERRORS:
STILL REPORTED.

ERRORS ARE REPORTED.

4-5
.4

DATA FOR DATA ERRORS.

JOB ACTION UPON ERROR

SR9:

4.2.13

IN ERROR CONTINUES

SRQID:

THE

JOB

SR9al}

THE

KILL FLAG FOR THE

SRlflz

JOB

TO
IN

RUN.

ERROR

AUTOMATICALLY SET.

EXTERNAL BUFFER A§$IGNMENT CONTROL

u!unquq-c-IERQOG-uufigrflfluwnw-u-FQunq—nun-qty-“

2.
4.2.11

EXTERNAL BUEFERS ARE ASSIGNED AND RELEASED AT HILL
APPLICABLE JOBS:

SRiflflfll

Sfllfislt

SR11:

PRESENT EXTERNAL BUFFER ASSIGNMENTS ARE FROEEN.

DEVICE ADDRESSING CONTROL

mu—nug-uw-mlnfin-uup-flfl--19v'U-‘

SRlllDI
RANDOM DEVICE UNIT SELECTION AND ADDRESSING ARE
ENABLED.

SR11913
CURRENT UNITS AND ADDRESSING ARE FRanN WHERE
POSSIBLE.

9‘9

MONITOR VARIABLES
----------

(DETAILEO

DESCRIPTION)

Uni-fl-oulflvunmfl-Uuq-On-w-npnnq

THERE ARE THREE SETS OF MONITOR VARAIBLES WHICH THE
ALL CHANGES SHOULD BE MADE USING THE :CTOJ COMMAND.

4.3.1

PEEK

UOER

MAY

CHANGE.

VARIABLES

un-nug-uuugfiq’vu

THO

VARIABLES EXIST FOR THE MO PEEK FUNCTION (SR5=1)I
LOCATION MOFELD <OO175T: AND
LOCATION HOAOOR (OOAZAT.
TNTTIALLY. HOFELO CONTAINS A COF OO INSTRUCTION.(Q201) ANO MOAODR
CONTAINS THE POINTER TO SRVAL1 T1564).
IN THIS STATE. NHEN SR5I1
THE PRIORITY OF THE CURRENT JOB BEING SERVICED IS DISPLAYED IN
THE NO; 1.8. THE CONTENTS OF LOCATION 01364.
1.
2.

TO CHANGE THESE VARIABLE:8 SO THE CONTENTS OF LOCATION FAAAA ARE
OISPLAYED. TYPE THE FOLLONING COMMANDS!

IETOOO17OJ

OO173
66174
OO174

6201

c¢2r1~a

62F1Cl3
1564
[AAAAbQ
AAAAEug

‘

PERIODIC TIME VARIABLES

FOR ROTATION ANO STATUO REPORT

w-*--lp—F-filqFwy—film!MI!Ilfl'lfifiHwflnnpuw-n-wm~w-unI-QHQ

A DOUBLE PRECISION COUNTER IS USED TO COUNT OFF THE PERIODIC TIME
FOR ROTATION ANO AUTOMATIC STATUS REPORTS.
THE ACTUAL TIME OF THE
PERIOD ISAAFUNCTION OF THE COUNTER PRESET VALUE. AND THE NUMBER
AND TYPES OF JOBS ”HIGH ARE RUNNING.
THE COUNTER PRESET 18 INITIALLY
SET TO 77779605 (DOUBLE PRECISION; 2‘5 COMPLEMENTI.
LOCATION
ENDPRA (09175) CONTAINS THE kEAST SIGNIFICANT HALF OF THE
PRESET WHILE ENDPRZ (Bfli76) CONTAINS THE MOST SIGNIFIOANT.
TO
CHANGE THE VALUE OF THE PRESET TO ODODEEEE TYPE THE FOLLOWING
COMMANDS!

IC’OO91753
O9175
Ofl176
$3176

OOOO

CEEEfifil
EEEEEOJ
7777
EDDDO’J
OODOE”!

THEN. WHEN READY TO START EXERUISING: USE THE ICTRJ COMMAND.
THIS HILL CAUSE COUNTER OVERFLOH, ROTATION. A sTATus REPORT
AND

FINALLY COUNTER PREOETT

2'19

ROTATE SLOT

SELECTION

-‘w--n--’—-!--P---”-

SLOT SELECTION IS MODIFIED BY THE MONITOR EACH TIME A ROTATION
AND BY SOME SOFTWARE MODULES AT PERIODIC INTERVALSe
THE USER NO LONGER HAS ANY CONTROL OVER THE SLOTS SELECTED.
IN GENERAL: A SLOT WILL BE ROTATED THE NUMBER OF TIMES THAT A BIT
SET FOR THAT SLOT APPEARS (UP TO 3) IN LOCATION ”ROTNRD" (19177).
ROTATE

TAKES PLACE;

SLOT

BITS ASSIGNED

u-w‘

uqfiflfiflfl-flfifl-'

JF1
Jr:
Jra
JE4

”IQJG
11519
21§010
317011

Q'tl

NORMAL TELEPRINTER REPORTS
--HQ—'—‘—-U-phu-u-qg-flg-FQ

THERE

ARE

THREE TYPES

OF NORMAL

REPORTS GENERATED BY MONITOR
N0 NORMAL REPORTS

IN ANY SYSTEM WHICH HAS AT LEAST 8K OF MEMORY.
ARE GENERATED IN 4K SYSTEMS.

4.4;1

LONG FORM STATUS REPORT
.mw'wfl—‘qugfl-fip-ungfi-fil.

PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT IS TO GIVE THE USER A PIQTURE DE
HHAT does ARE IN MEMORY AND THEIR STATUS.
THIS REPORT 15
GENERATED IF SR2.3=m0 AND IIs~I Is COMMANaco on AN gxeRcIng
TIME PERIOD HAS EXPIRED.
THE HEADINGS ANU THEIR DEFINITIONS AREI
THE

JOB NUMBER

JOB!

MDDULEI

HAINDECI

FLDI

THE MEMORY rIELD

PRII

THE

STATEI'

MODULE OR JOB SHORT TITLE

MAINDEC NUMBER IPRDDUCT coma).
IN HHIGN THE 409

THE

PREFIX «MAINDEc-xan

Is CURRENTLY LOCATED.

Joe's ASSIENED PRIORITY LEVEL.

"R"

INDICATE§ THE 405 13 IN THE Run STATE! "K"

INDICATES THE KILLED STAT51
7.

CNTRI

THE

CONTENTS OF THE JOE’S PASS COUNTER.

BELOW IS‘A LONG FORM STAINS REPORT FOR AN EXERCISER AS
DESCRIBED IN CHAPTER 3.

DEC/X6

JOB
01
52as
a4
11

12
13
14

MODULE

MAINDEC

RPQBDS

DIRFA-A

EAEALL
EAEDP
HSRHSP

DIKEA-B
DHKEA-A
DIPCA-A
DIRKA-A
DITCA-a
DIKAC-B
DIKAA-A

RKBDS

TOZIDT
OPRATE
NRIaaA

FLO FRI STATE CNTR
R
a
2345
a;9- a4

a
I

aI
as

1
1
1
I

n2
II
U7
as

s-Iz

K
.K
R
R
R
R
R

maaa
mama

$542
1459

a127
EEG?
flflfié

IMPLIED.

FORM STATUS REPORT

SHORT

.un--.-.q-p!-l--uuuudfil.-

PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT IS TO GIVE THE USER CRITIOAL
NO
INFORMATION PERTAINING TO JOBS IN THE RUN STATE ONLY.
INFORMATION IS GIVEN FOR JOBS IN THE KILLED STATE.
THIS REPORT
IS GENERATED IF sag-3aa1 AND IESuJ IS OOHMANDED OR AN EXERQISER
TIME PERIOD HAS EXPIRED.
THE HEADINGS AND THEIR DEFINITIONS
THE

ARES
1.

JOB!

JOB NUMBER
THE MEMORY FIEND

2.‘ FLDI

CNTRI

NHIOH THE JOB IS CURRENTLY LOCATED.

THE CONTENTS OV'THE JOE'S FASS COUNTER-

18 A SHORT roan STATUS ngwanr or THE SAME conoxrxons
IN THE LONG FORM 1N 9.1.1.

aELou
SHOWN
nae/x5

JOB rLo ONTR
a
a:
2345
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ROTATE COMPLETION REPORT
nu-I-ucpflug'a-uq-qgl-QR!

THIS REPORT 15 oIsPLAYED A! THE succzssruL COMPLETION or J08
THE Foam 18
3107 ROTATION PROVIDING :33-a.
ROTATE XXXX
HHERE

"XXX!"

IS THE

CONTENTS OF

3'1}

LOCATION ROTNRD

(16177).

4.5

LOADING THE cusvomxzeo Exzacxsaa
I.w-w-fln—II-IQq'g-u-yfiqwh-jo-p-u-g

IF THE CUSTOM VERSION OF DEC/X5 IS IN THE FORM OF A 05/8
".SV" FILE (DXOEA.$VI. TYPE THE FOLLOWING COMMANDS HITH THE
03/5 KEYBOARD MONITOR IN CONTROL (BOOTOTRAP OH START AT O7665

IV NECESSARY).
.ER OXBEAhl

EVENTUALLY THE PROCE§SOR HILL HALT AT LOCATION OSOOO
HASSOOZ).
THEN PROTECT THE VOLATILE 08/8 DEVICES
AND GO
O 4.6.

(POP-8!?

IF THE CUSTOMIEED EXERCISER RESIDES ON ONE OR MORE BINARY
TAPES. LOAD EACH TAPE UOING THE STANOARO BINARY LOADER
TECHNIQUE. THE INITIAL SETTING OF THE DATA FIELD IS 0?
NO OONSEOUENCE SINCE FIELD SPECIFICATION IS PRESENT ON
EACH TAPE.
THEN GO TO 4.¢.

If THE CUSTOMIZEO EXERCISER REOIOES 0N A PMK-OZ TAPE: LOAD
EACH MEMORY FIELD SEGMENT USING THE STANDARD BINARY LOAD-ER
TECHNIQUE.
THE INITIAL SETTING OF THE DATA FIELD I8 OF NO
CONSEQUENCE SINCE FIELD SPECIFICATION I5 PRESENT ON EACH
RECORDED SEGMENT.

STARTING THE CUSTOHIEED EXERCISER
nag-ppwgqn-up—ququwpwflpfi-w—mfig

ADDRESS 03909.

LuAD

newness START.

THE PROGRAM HILL HALI

nzpncss

THE PROGRAM WILL PRINT!

CONT

a§aaa (PDPnals MAysauza.

.
.

GO TO 4.7

9-14

4.7

RUNNING THE CUSTOMIZEO EXERCISER
H'-W-fl-.“WF'Q'FO---’-‘--’-'-Q--.

DEVICES/OPTIONS

SET UP ALL
TO BE EXERCISED AS EXPLAINED IN
THE MODULE DOCUMENTATION.
IT MAY BE NECESSARY TO RESTART THE
EXERCISER AS DESCRIBED IN IM6 IN ORDER TO GENERATE SYSTEM INITIALIEE.

INITIALIEE ALL JDB$ USING THE

SET

RUN SINGLE JOBS DR SMALL GROUPS
ANY OATASTRDPHIC FAILURES.

THE

SWITCH REGISTER

IEIJFXhJ COMMAND REFERENCING THE MODULE DOCUMENTS.

ID 3245.
OF JOBS

HILL TO DISCOVER

NOTE:
IT I3 A REQUIREMENT THAT THE NUMBER OF JOBS RUNNING THAT REQUIRE EXTERNAL
BUFFERS MUST NOT EXCEED THE NUMBER OF BUFFERS AVAILABLE] OTHERHISE THE EXERCISER
HILL PROBABLY HANG.
5.

KILL

SET

RUN

ALL JOBS.

THE SWITCH REGISTER

TO 99D”.

ALL JOBS SIMULTANEOUSLY FOR THE TIMES INDICATED BELON.
REFER TO THE ”DEC/X8 SOFTWARE MODULE INDEX” (MAINOEO-XQ-DIOAFU '0)
FOR EXCEPTIONS IN THE RUNTIME FOR PARTICULAR DEVIGES.
TEST

MINIMUM
RUNTIME

39 MINUTES
2

HOURS

EFFECTIVENESS

MOST SOLID FAILURES DISCOVERED.

MOST SOLID AND INTERMITTENI
FAILURES DISCOVERED.

SYSTEM ACCEPTANCE

NOTE:
DURING PROLONGEO RUNTIMEI SET SWITCH REGISTER OPTIONS
To USER ADVANTAGE.
SR3 §HOULD ALWAYS REMAIN IN THE 6 STATE
To ENSURE MAXIMUM INTERACTION.
IT MAY ALSO BE NECESSARY TO
ADJUST MONITOR VARIABLES DEPENDENT UPON THE NUMBER AND
TYPES OF JOBS RUNNING.
IN OK OR GREATER SYSTEMS. THE ROTATION TIME PERIOD
SHOULD BE ADJUSTED SUCH.THAT ROTATION OCCURS AT NO LESS THAN 15 MINUTE INTERVALS.
RAPID ROTATION FREQUENCY DECREASES INTERACTION APRRECIABLY.

4.5

HALTING

THE

EXERCISER

Quad—'uquqqcunp-nn-d

KILL ALL JOBS
RETURN To *0 STATE
ncpaess HALT.
To RESTART. FOLLDH
.

AM P

THE swaps

9'15

4.6.

SUMMARY OF

KEYBOARD COMMANDS

.q---’-.--pflgwp-onag-w—Iflvfi.

REFER

4.1 FOR DETAILED

COMMAND

DESCRIPTIONS.

MINIMUM Manonv

FUNCTION

.-....—-«...--

.L-.-.-.

.-.....

:L
‘

KEYBOARD MONITOR

E’s:

CALL DEC/X8

Icvca

EXERCISE

Itrni

sxzncxse

IIIJqua

INITIALIZE JOB er

IIner«n

RUN JOB er

ICAR~I

RUN ALL JOBS

2EKJFX~J

KILL JOB er

IIAK~I

KILL ALL JOBS

ABSOLUTE moo: MEMQflY MODIFICATION

RELATIVE MODE MEMORY MODIF!CATION

STATUS REPORT

aoNSOLE ourpur on LPae/Lea wIIH oavxca coo: NM,

GONSOLE OUTPUT 0N ITY HITH DEVICE CODE NN {OTHER THAN LPaa/LEBI.

IC'OFAAAAJ

Icvourx-I
Lanna:
-

Its~I
:ELNer'

IEDNN~3

:CTNNaJ

.aK

AND HOIAI;

QONSOLE staoanu

INPUT o~ KEYBOARD wIIH DEVICE cope NN.

IEIBJ

szTCH CONTROL To BUILDER

xce~a

BUILD

xIP~I

PUNCH on save

XEES“)

PRINT EMPTY SLOTS

:EXJ

up TO osxa KEYBOARD nowxroa
AND no NOT SAVE SNAPPED AREA.

IcwI

fl'lb

asxa KEYBOARD MONITOR

4.161

SUMMARY

SWITCH REGISTER OPTIONS

-‘—--’---_-'-,--‘Ow---Q--!fl---C.-.

REFER

4.2 FOR DETAILED DESCRIPTION84

BIT

STATE

pun-um

P-Qfl'

.PUNCTION

PRIORITY DUEUE
RING OUEUE

JOBS RUN IN EXEC MODE
JOBS RUN IN USER MODE

ENABLE NORMAL REPORTS
DISABLE

LONG STATUS REPORT
SHORT STATUS REPORT

ENABLE SLOT ROTATION
DISABLE

MO PRESERVED
MO PEEK
(PRESET To DISPLAY PRIORITY

405 CURRENTLY BEING SERVIGED)

ERRORS TAKE NORMAL EXIT.
ERRORS RETURN TO KEYBOARD MONITOR
7-8

BO
01

19
11

PRINT
PRINT
PRINT
PRINT

ALL ERROR DATA
FIRST 4 DATA SETS
NO DATA
NO ERRORS

F‘G

JOB CONTINUES AFTER ERROR
JOB I3 KILLED AFTER ERROR

ENABLE RANDOM EXTERNAL BUFFER
ASSIGNMENT
FREEIE CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS

ENABLE RANDOM DEVICE UNIT SELECTION

A»

AND ADORESOING.
FREEEE CURRENT UNIT SELECTIONS AND
ADDRESSING.

CHAPTER 5
ERROR

INFORMATION AND PROCEDURES

ufl‘—-quPHQ-fl-VHwP-npd-nnQFCVIHI

THIS CHAPTER PROVIDES BADIC INFORMATION CONCERNING ERRORS OF ALL
TYPES WHICH MAY OCCUR DURING THE BUILDING AND RUNNING 0F DEC/X8RECOMMENDED RECOVERY PROCEDURE5 AND PERTINENT INFORMATION ARE
THEN GIVEN FOR EACH TYPE OF ERROR.
FINALLY: HELPFUL HINTS ARE
PROVIDED FOR SYSTEM TROUBLESHOOTING.

CLASSES

ERRORS

'n-mfl-bpg'uqmg'qu

THERE ARE FOUR MAJOR GLA$$E$
OS/B ERRORS AND JOB ERRORS.

OE ERRORS!

MONITOR ERRORS:

BUILDER ERRDRDT

MONITOR ERRORS MAY ocOUR DJRING THE BUILDING AND RUNNING PHASES.
NITH ONE EXCEPTION. ALL NONIIOR ERRORS RESULT IN A PROGRAM MALT
NITHOUT AN ERROR PRINTOUT.
THE EXCEPTION Is A POWER FAIL ERROR
As DETECTED BY THE POHER FAIL OPTION.
IN THIS CASE. NHEN POHER
IS RESTORED MONITOR PRINTS "PF" FOLLONED BY A SYSTEM STATUS REPORT
THE EXERCISER THEN ENTERO NONITOR MOOE ANO AHAITS USER COMMANDS.

(IF SRZPU AND

BUILDER ERRORS OCCUR ONLY DURING THE BUILDING PHASE AND RESULT
IN A PROGRAM HALT.
THERE ARE NO FRINTOUTS FOR THIS ERROR CLASS.
OS/e ERRORS ARE INDICATED BY AN ERROR PRINTOUT ANO RETURN I0
EITHER THE 03/9 KEYBOARD MONITOR OR TO THE DEC/X8 BUILDER. THIS
CLASS OF ERROR SHOULD OOGUR ONLY DURING OS/B EVOLUTIONS WHILE

OUTLOINO DEC/xa.
A PROGRAM
JOB ERRORS ARE USUALLY REPORTED BY ERROR PRINTOUT3.
HALT HITHDUT A REPORT WILD OCCUR IF THE ERROR CONDITION IS CONSIDERED
FATAL.
.

5‘1

GRIT

5.2

ERROR PRINTOUTS

(REPORTS)

.Q‘mug-u-uogflbflnupu-FQIRRQI

THERE ARE THREE SOURCES OF ERROR REPORTS!
AND BUILDER- 05/8 1/0 ERRORS.
JOB

JOB

ERRORS:

POWER

FAIL,

ERROR REPORTS

uuqu-q—ufl-9119w-g

NOTE:

JOB

DURING BACKGROUND JOB ERROR REPORTING ONLY
ALL SERVICING CEASES FOR OTHER BACKGROUND JOBS.
ERROR REPORT ALHAYS

TYPE ERR

HAS

THE FOLLOWING HEADER:

IN JFX HODTTITLE FLUTE

CNTRTNNNN

RPCTNNNN

OODETNNNN

HITH THE FOLLONINO DEFINITIONS}

TYPE:

"STAT" Eon A STATUS ERROR on "DATA" FOR A DATA ERROR.

JFX:

JOB NUMBER

MOD!

MODULE SHORT TITLE

FLO:

THE MEMORY FIELD

CNTR:

THE CONTENTS or

RFC:

THE RELATIVE MODULE PC

CODE:

THIS JOE‘S ERROR

IN WHICH THE JOB CURRENTLY RESIOES
THE Joafs PAss COUNTER
AT

ID CODE

WHICH THE ERROR REPORT HA! INITIATED
(REFER TO MODULE

DOCUMENT EOR

DEFINITIONS)
IN ADDITION: VARIOUS STAIUS-HOROSTPERTAINING TO THE JOB IN ERROR
3: xuoxcaTeo IN EITHER "STAT" OR "DATA" REPORTS.
THESE STATUS
WORDS APPEAR BELON THE.HEADER AS FOLLOWS!

MAY

SA:NNNN

SBINNNN

sc:~~~~

SOTNNNN

THERE MAY BE FROM 9 TO ZQIID) STATUS WORDS INDICATED DEPENDING ON
THE MODULE.
THE SYMBOLS "5X" WHERE "X“ APPEARS IN ALPHABEIIOAL
ORDER ARE DEFINED IN THE APPLICABLE MODULE DOCUMENT.

“DATA" ERRORS ALSO INCLUDE A SET OF DATA WORDS FOR EACH SET OF
FAILING DATA.
THE DATA SETS ARE REPORTED AFTER THE "3X" WORDS
AND ARE PREFIXED BY "OX". AFTER THE FINAL "OX" REPORT: A TALLY
OF THE NUMBER OF PAILING DATA SETS Is-RERORTED.

5'2

HERE

IS AN EXAMPLE OF A TCEl/TCWE DECTAPE WRITE LOCK STATUS ERROR!

STAT

ERR IN Jfll HODIT0910T FLDgfi CNTR86924
RPC:662$
CODEEflflfl4.
SA:44BG
$G87fifll
SBSGZBE
SDI75fl1
SEIGZfiZ
$F¥0200
SGiflflflfl
.8H:2612
Slifl14fl

IS AN EXAMPLE OF A 07$? DISK DATA ERROR.
SWITCH REGISTER
SET TO A 1 SO ONLY THE FIRST FOUR FAILING DATA SETS HERE
OR ED.

SELDH

Bé; STNAS

”R-

RPC€fl517
DATA-ERR 1” J02 MODIDFSZDS FLO!“ GNTR86141
CODE!UDIP
SAxfl316 saisa1a $987939 $01flflflfl 3535577 SF86142 862531!
EH:2114
8180312
SJSZQSI
DA:!6EB
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DA:5¢¢3

DB!1274

DB!377$
DB§1167
DB!35!7

ogsawza

nasawaa
ousaaaa
oaxouaa

TALLYaflads
ALL RECOVERY FOR

NON-FATAL J08 ERRORS 18 CONTROLLED VIA SR asz 6.9

5-5

POHER

FAIL ERROR REPORT

pauc—fi-uuwg’nflnn—uggpfln

THE POWER FAIL OPTION DETEOTS POWER LON. THE EXERCISER
INTERRUPTEO (UNLESS IN MONITOR MODE). A RESTART JUMP IS STORED
IN LOCATION OOOOO AND THE PROGRAM EXECUTES "JMP .".
UPON AUTO RESTART.
”PF" AND THEN A SYSTEM STATUS REPORT IIP 8K ANO SRZIO) ARE PRINTED.
THE.EXERCISER
THEN ENTERS MONITOR MODE AND AHAITS USER COMMANDS.
ABSOLUTELY
NO JOBS ARE STARTED OR SERVICED.
WHEN

5.2.3

BUILDERaOS/B I/O ERROR REPORTS
flung-‘—.n-Q-fiQu-uufin—uPQlRROQQ

IF BUILDER INTERFACES WITH DSIO AND AN
FOLLOWING ERROR REPORT MAY OCCUR:
OS/O ERROR

I/O ERROR

IS DETECTED.

THE

1AAAA

OF THIS TYPE OF ERROR. REFER TO THE BUILDER-OS/B ERROR TABLE
PARTIAL MONITOR/BUILDER PROGRAM LISTING ATTACHED.

FOR A DEFINITION
ON PAGE 4 IN THE

OF COURSE. STANDARD 0518 ERROR MESSAGES MAY BE DISPLAYED BY THE
03/8 SYSTEM.
IN THIS CASE REFER TO CURRENT 05/8 DOCUMENTATION
FOR

INFORMATION.

ERROR HALT RECOVERY

PROCEDURES

I-wnun---wum-Q---wnI-HOI.QIQDQ

WHEN AN ERROR HALT OCOURO.
'PROCEDURE TO FOLLON.

ADDRESS-RANGE

MEMORY
FIELD

REFER

TO THE TABLE BELOW TO FIND THE

EXERCISER

REFERENCE
PROCEDURE

PHASE

pawn—g-”pompuwm-pwlg-N-Qin"fl-wfl-chnqu-Iounngiin

OBOE-6177
0295-1177
1260-1377
1400«3177
1400~3177
3250-3577

ANY

seas-4577

RUN

450a.5577
5650-6577
56¢O~6577

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1

RUN
anLD

5.3.1
’oarl
5.5.1
9.3.1
5.3.1
5.3.1
5.3.2

RUN
ANY
AN?

RUN
BUILD
BUILD
RUN
66a5-7177
RUN
729g’7577
O
BUILD
7699-7777-;
7600~7777
1
BUILD
ALL OTHER AREAS ARE UNDEEINED CRASHES.
r
O
1
r
F

5-9

5.3.2
.

5.3.1
5.3.1
$.O.2
5.3.2
05/8 DOCUMENTATION
OS/B DOCUMENTATION

513:1

MONITOR 0R BUILDER ERROR HALT
99'Q-I-un-QQ-Pun—qp-Dn-UIQQ'D

TO FTND THE ERROR CAUSE 0R DEFINITION AND RECOVERY PROCEDURE:
REFER To THE "TABLE OF ERROR HALTS" ON PAGE 3 OF THE PARTIAL MONITOR/

ATTACHED-

BUILDER

L_ISTING

JOB JFX

ERROR HALT

'.~.-'—-QW!Q"I-p-

Now
SAVE ALL PERTINENT REGISTER CONTENTS. HALT LOCATION. ETC.
THIS LOCATION
“EXAMINE” THE FIRST LOCATION IN THAT J08 SLOT.
THEN DDMPUTE
ALWAYS SHOULD CONTAIN THE 408 NUMBER IN Dxrs 6-11.
THE RELATIVE ADDRESS D? THE HALT A3 PDLLDNSx
(RRRR)

(AAAA)

23%

{$558)

(RRRR) IS THE RELATIVE ADOREQS: (AAAAT THE ABSOLUTE ADDRESS OF THE HALT
NON UNING THE
AND (8553) THE FIRST ADDRESS OF THAT JOB SLOT.
RELATIVE ADDRESS REFERENOE THE APPLICABLE MODULE LISTING TO DETERMINE
FOR RECOVERY. RESTART THE EXERCISER AT
CAUsE OF THE ERROR.
D
ID.
WHERE

PROGRAM HANG RECOVERY
oCRI-g—qngvnflnqnnnli

PROGRAM HANG MAY OCOUR UNDER ONE OF THE

POLLONING CONDITIONS!

CONFLTOTING SET OF PARAMETERS IS SPEOIFTEO TO A JOB. FOR
INSTANOE: IF RKB DISK DRIVES 3 AND 1 HERE SELECTED FOR
EXERCISING BUT THE U§ER fiLECTS TO USE ONLY DRIVE 3 USING ANOTHER PARAMETER.
A HANG HILL OCCUR.
HO§T MODULES DO NOT CHECK FOR PARAMETER CONFLICTS
T0 RECOVER. SELECT NON-CONFLICTING
A

DglegTégéTlALlATION.
RA
P

THE NUMBER OF JOBS RUNNING WHICH REQUIRE THE USE OF EXTERNAL
TO RECOVER, KILL
BUFFERS EXCEEDS THE NUMBER OF BUFFERS AVAILABLE.
ENOUGH OF THESE JOBS TO CORREOT THE SITUATION.
IT MAY BE NECESSARY
TO {'63: STOP THE EXERCISER AND THEN RESTART AT OOOOO.

THE HIGHEST PRIORITY JOB THAT USES E.XTERNAL BUFFERS HAS BEEN
COMMANDED BY THE USER TO U55 ONE PARTICULAR BUFFER ONLTo BUT
THAT BUF'ER IS ALREADY ASSI‘GNED TO ANOTH-ER JOB: TO RECOVER: EQOJ.
THE EXERCISER. RESTART AT $3650 AND THEN START THL JOB REQUIRING
NOW THE OTHER JOBS MAY BE STARTED.
THE FIXED BUFFER.

5'5

STOP

SYSTEM
nnnnn

TROUBLESHOOTING

(HELPFUL HINTS)

.—I“—5Hqflfi-OqQfl---IW‘Q-'CFC-.w-CI

SECTION 15 INTENDED TD GIVE THE USER SOME INSIGHT IN HON
THIS LIST OF "HELPFUL
TO USE DECIXB To DIAGNOSE SYSTEM PNDaLENs.
HINTS“ Is av ND MEANS EXHAUSTIVE.
THE INGENIOUS USER HILL DISCOVER
THIS

NONE METHODS

MANY

5.5.1

OF HIS DNN.

INTERACTIVE FROBLEMS
uQuu-g-uw-ntuflmqy-w-

UNDER A HEAVY NORK LOAD: THE DEC/X8 SOFTWARE MAY NOT BE
QUITE FAST ENOUGH TO SERVICE DEVICES THAT HAVE CRITICAL TIMING
REQUIREMENTS.
FOR INSTANCEI TOOichaa DECTAPE TIMING ERRORS MAY
OCCUR DUE TO SOFTWARE SHORTCQHINGS HHEN MANY INTERRUFT
ALSO DATA REQUENT LATE OR DATA RATE ERRORS MAY
JOBS ARE RUNNING.
OCCUR IF THE PROOES$OR CANNOT ANSHER A BREAK REQUEST IN THE REQUIRED
TIME RERIOD.
THIS TYPE OF CONDITION MAY BE BROUGHT AROUT BY RUNNING
EAE. OR IF A PARTICULAR MEMORY IS NLOH.

NOTES

NHEN AN INTERACTIVE PROBLEM
METHODS!

IS SUSPECTED TRY ANY OF THE FOLLOHING

TO DEGRADE INTERACTION.

SET SRflsl

(RING MODE QUEUING)

RUN

coNaINATIDNs or goes To.s:: WHAT cOMBINATION§ CAUSE?

SHALL

1::a PROSLEH.
ALO :.

IT A PARTICULAR DEVICE Ia

IN ERROR.

RUN THAT

5.5.2

PARAMETER§ To UNIT aEEMS TO N: THE nos: LIKgLv FAILINB
CONDITION.
IF THE ERROR CAN BE MADE TO OCCUR FREQUENTLY:
SGDPING NILL YIELD BETTER NENULTs.
CHANGE JOB

SYSTEMS SOFTWARE FAILS

DEC/XQ RUNS

“mun—g-gqp'gq-p-nIfg'nvw'miap-m‘gmq.

SINCE SYSTng SDTTNAR: NAY use DIFFERENT INSTRUCTION UR FUNDTIDN
SEDUEchs THAN OCCUR IN DEG/x5. THERE Is A POSSIBILITY THAI DEC/xa
UILL NoT OETECT CERTAIN ERRORS.
HDNEVER. IT MIGHT HELP IF THE
EXERCISER HERE CONFIGURED SIMILAR To THE STSTENS SOFTWARE IN RESPECT
To FUNCTIONAL LOADR AND MEMORY PLACEMENT.
IN ADDITION. IF THE
SYSTEM FAILS NHILE RUNNING TIME SHARE sorTUAnE. 8R1 CAN BE SET To
A 1 To UTILIaE THE TIME SHARE-HARDWARE.
5-5.3

SCOPE LOOP3
uquqq-qnwfl

ALTHOUGH THERE ARE NO AUTDNATIG SCOPE LOOP FEATURES IN DEG/X8: A
TRUE SCOPE LOOP CAN BE APPROACHED THROUGH THE USEAGE 0F 5R 7IQI10
AND 11. AND BY SELECTING CONSTANT JOB PARAMETERS INSTEAD OE ENABLING
RANDOM SELECTION.

5-6

MEMORY

PEEKING VIA THE MG

"Isl-Dunn'—qqngunu-nuupq-Mgnfl

THE

SYSTEM UNDER TEST HAS EAE

IS A PQP*5/E SYSTEM: THE M0
AS AN EXERGISE IN THE
IN‘A 3¥STEH WHICH HA3 DEGTAPE (TCBL/TCEB)

PEEK FUNCTION CAN BE QUITE HANDY (3R 5=1).
OP THE MD PEEK ABILITY
CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING!
USE

THE CURRENT BLDCK NUMBER as

DISPLAY

:EIJFle

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£03
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‘IF‘IUOWD

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£26763

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£561fl1

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INTO

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(INITIALIEE)

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05173
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NOTE!

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1564
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5¢Ufl£h3
.

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"TC910T" USES THE F1357 LOGATIOU
THE GURRENT BLOGK ON TAFE.

BUFFER FOR
THE LIST

18 ENDLESS!

fi'Z

IN THE ASSIGNED EXIERNAL

[OED/X!

MONITOR/BUILDER

DXOHB

REVISION

V142

FALia

f;l-NOV~74I

IDEOIXI MONITOR/BUILDER uxana REVISION 0
IF A N

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D F

IOOPYRIGHT 1972.

S Y S T E H S

1975.

1970.

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ITHE FOLLONINO TABLE LIST! ALL ERROR HALTO IN THE DEO/XB MONITOR/BUILDER.
[IT IS BROKEN DOHN INTO l MAJOR SECTIONS! ”HALTS IN PIELO I"!
INHALTS IN FIELD 1': AND "HALTO IN ANY FIELOM
ITHE LOCATION OF THE HALT IS INDICATED BY THE ODTAL NUMBER IMMEDIATELY
ITO THE LEFT OF THE "HLTXXX" TAG.
[ACCOMPANY'NG rang 53:? '3 A DISORIPTYON g! TH:
ALL HALTO HNIOH ARE COMMENTED "/0”
IPA_!LURE AND THE RECOVERY PROCEDURE.
IARE DEPOSIT ERRORS. THESE ERROR HALTD SHOULD HAVE BEEN MODIFIED BY THE PROGRAM
ITO OTHER INITRUOTIONO. THE REOOUERY FOR THIS TYPE OE ERROR IS TO RELDAD
IOR REDUILD THE EXERCISER.

IAITER ERROR HALTO OTHER THAN THE TYPE MENTIONED ABOVE»
OOODI IO USUALLY SAFE.
IF THE EXERCISER HILL NOT PASS THE
IBUILOINO PHASE OR RUN AT ALL AFTER BUILDING. THE‘OEST METHOD OF
IDIOOOYERINO THE RR.OILEM I! TO RUN ALL THE BASIC PROCESSOR TESTS
IAND OEVIOE TESTSIA RESTART AT

zzanon HALTS IN rthn a
’II‘-.I-I.I9I'C.-‘.cqgO22!
5221
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HLTOSJ

ITRANSFER

HLTOSZ

PAILUR! "NILE LOADING SKELETON SKIP/SERVICE CHAIN
ITAROUOHOUT N NORY AS FA RTO PTHE INITIAL LOAD/START SEQUENCE.
IDEPRESS OONT NO! TO TRY
AOAIN. IF PAILURES STILL OCCUR. RUN
DATA II BEING TRANSFERRED FROM
[ALL OF THE EXTENDED MEMORY DIAGNOSTICS.
IFIELD 9 TO THE FIELD
ED
/IN THE ODE INSTRUOTION ATL
HLTDSZI IN FIELD D, THE
ADDRESS :3 IN

IT0

was:

IOBOO IN FIELOO

INDICA;
FAILINO

LOCATION

1671

HLTBBO

IIFIBUILDER OUTPUT IS VIA THE HRH-O2. PRESS CONT HHEN
[READY TO ”PUNCH" THE CURRENT FIELD BINARY.

1424
1462
1522
1523

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HLTOOO

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HLTOSO

HLTOAE

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172!
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1754

HLTD45

HLTOAI

HLTOAZ

IPOHER FAIL OPTION SENIEO POHEI LOH.
'HALT ' HAITINO FOR POHER TO GO
THIS 'HALT " SHOULD NEVER BE NOTIOEABLE
IDOHNu AND IN TIME REETART.
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