This replaces the existing MUDSYS;STINK 2 that was installed as TS
STINKM. The bad-EXPUNGE patch in there is no longer needed now Muddle is
built with MIDAS 73.
MACDMP MOBY1 has 340 support, but only works with the old PDP-6
microtape device. MACDMP 6U32 has both microtape and TD10 support,
but no 340 code. Both programs can be adjusted for core size.
Older versions of MIDAS expect you to type a command at them, which
makes them hard to automate with :x or XFILEs. This patch backports the
JCLINI code from later versions of MIDAS, which pre-stuffs the command
buffer with the JCL string if available.
This was edited from later versions of the source to match MUDDLE; TS
MIDAS circa 1973, which was built with MOBY==0. The program itself dates
from no later than 1971. Comments, and results when built with other
options, are probably not historically accurate.
MIDAS 73 is useful because 74 and all later versions have completely
rewritten code for relocatable output (and for IO), and they don't
support some of STINK's features correctly (or at all). A ported version
of MIDAS 73 was still being used to build Muddle in the 1980s, going by
<mdl.int>midas.exe.5.
BLKLDR 1 is from the IMLAC; IML DEVICE archive file dated 1976-11-02.
The archive was found in three identical copies on ToTS tapes 7006990,
701351, and 90606; they were extracted by Brad Parker. The BLKLDR 1
timestamp inside the archive is 1975-01-26. Tape database records
from DM show a BLKLDR 4 dated 1974-08-19.
To build the IMLAC; IMLAC BLKLDR file, it's first assembled with
MIDAS. Regular IMTRAN writes the block loader format, but the block
loader itself is in the "special TTY" boostrap format. IMTRAN is
runtime patched to skip the block framing.
The file IMLAC; SSV 52 dated 1973-01-07 was edited to match the Imlac
block loader format file http://www.ubanproductions.com/Imlac/ssv,
which claims to be SSV 22. SSVMSE 38 from 1977-12-13 was also helpful
in the process.
IMSRC; SSVCHR 22 is entirely from disassembly. The original file
would have been machine generated by SYMFOR.
The PDP-6 must be attached. Type L and a file name to load it. Start
the PDP-6 from 0. Toggle switch 1 on. Set address switches to 0 to
play from the memory indicator lights.
Needed to assemble MUSRUN.
The patch to TSYMGT+5 is to make a larger memory area for receiving
data from .GETSYS. The type of data is CALLS, the list of system
symbols. Presumably one page was enough when MIDAS 77 was current,
but now eight pages may be needed.