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# Prime 50-Series Emulator
## What Is This?
This is a software emulator for a minicomputer architecture sold
by Prime Computer from the early 70s through about 1993. Prime's
initial business plan was to make systems compatible with the
Honeywell x16 family, which had then-recently been discontinued.
Prime extended the architecture heavily.
## Emulator History
Beginning in 2005, Jim Wilcoxson developed an emulator for Prime
Computer's 50-Series architecture. The emulator originally ran on
the PowerPC architecture. In late 2011, Jim ported it so it would
run on x86. This entailed solving endianness issues (The 50-Series
is big-endian), as well as re-optimizing the code for performanceu
without the host processor having a large set of general-purpose
registers.
## Emulator Documentation
Coming soon, we swear!
## Public Systems
There are a set of emulators available for public use. These may
be accessed via `telnet` to the appropriate port on `em.prirun.com`.
| PRIMOS Revision | Port |
|-----------------|------|
| 18.3.1 | 8007 |
| 19.2 | 8001 |
| 20.2.8 | 8002 |
| 21.0.6 | 8003 |
| 22.1.4 | 8004 |
| 23.4.Y2K.R1 | 8005 |
| 24.0.0.r15 | 8006 |
For example, `telnet em.prirun.com 8001`.
## Prime History
Some information about the Prime company is available in the FAQ
which was assembled by denizens of the comp.sys.prime usenet group
and Info-Prime mailing list around the time Prime's 50-Series
business unit ceased to exist. A reformatted copy is available
[here](https://sysovl.info/reference_prime_faq.html).
## Prime Documentation
A growing collection of Prime and related documentation is available
at [sysovl.info](https://sysovl.info/reference_prime.html).
## Getting PRIMOS
Two versions of PRIMOS are available from Bitsavers:
* [Rev 22.1.4](http://bitsavers.org/bits/Prime/primos_22.1.4.zip)
* [Rev 19.?](http://bitsavers.org/bits/Prime/pps/03_log.tape_I=boot_II=iptpal.tap.gz)
The Rev. 19 tape is a save from an installed system.