From 5821eb19ff34ef6bef2c5162f297a332c99b06e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Wilcoxson's Prime 50-Series emulator <61950780+prirun@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 21:07:43 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Typo, extensions to readme. Add link to repacked 22.1.4 tapes. Note location of PRIMOS install instructions. --- README.md | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1de4e8d..1490bde 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ 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 +is big-endian), as well as re-optimizing the code for performance without the host processor having a large set of general-purpose registers. @@ -50,13 +50,16 @@ business unit ceased to exist. A reformatted copy is available ## Prime Documentation A growing collection of Prime and related documentation is available -at [sysovl.info](https://sysovl.info/reference_prime.html). +at [sysovl.info](https://sysovl.info/reference_prime.html). A howto +on installing PRIMOS in the emulator is [here](https://sysovl.info/reference_prime_drb_installing_primos.html). +Discussion of adapting these instructions to 22.1.4 has been occurring on the [cctalk mailing list](http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2020-March/052126.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 22.1.4](http://bitsavers.org/bits/Prime/primos_22.1.4.zip) [has issues] +* [Rev 22.1.4 repacked](https://yagi.h-net.org/m2214repack.tar.gz) [use this] * [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.