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C00001 00001
C00002 00002 Information about the KL10, KA10, and 166.
C00006 00003 CONO APR, 166 KA KL
C00009 00004 166 KA KL
C00012 00005 KL10 new instructions:
C00019 00006 DTE20 KL10 I/O Functions
C00022 00007 Clocks and meters
C00028 00008 Performance Analysis
C00032 00009 KL10 to PDP-11 command word formats.
C00038 00010 KL10 UPT/EPT Special Locations
C00040 00011 Monitor Programming
C00043 00012 KL10 Folklore (from MIT)
C00047 00013 User programming differences between the KL10 and the KA10.
C00060 00014 Reloading the KL10
C00065 ENDMK
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Information about the KL10, KA10, and 166.
This document is intended as quick reference summary for programming
the various processors. An attempt has been made to make the
information reported here accurate and complete. The primary sources
of information from this was made are the KL10 prints and the source
files for KLDCP. The status of existing modifications to the KA10
and 166 are reported to the extent that those modifications can be
determined.
166 KA KL
CONO PI,
18 unused Clr Power Fail Write even address parity
19 unused Clr Parity Error Write even data parity
20 Clr Parity Error Dis Parity Error Int Write even directory parity
21 Dis Parity Error Int Enb Parity Error Int unused
22 Enb Parity Error Int Set CPA MEM PROT Drop prog requests on sel chan
23 Clear PI system
24 Request int on sel chn [Interrupts requested by
25 Turn on sel chn this function (Bit 24) can
26 Turn off sel chn be dropped only by use of
27 Turn off PI system bit 22.]
28 Turn on PI system
29 Select channel 1
30 Select channel 2
31 Select channel 3
32 Select channel 4
33 Select channel 5
34 Select channel 6
35 Select channel 7
CONI PI,
0 unused unused unused
...
10 unused unused unused
11 unused unused Prog request on channel 1
12 unused unused Prog request on channel 2
13 unused unused Prog request on channel 3
14 unused unused Prog request on channel 4
15 unused unused Prog request on channel 5
16 unused unused Prog request on channel 6
17 unused unused Prog request on channel 7
18 unused Power fail Write even address parity
19 unused Parity error Write even data parity
20 Parity error Parity Int Enb Write even directory parity
21 In progress on chn 1
22 In progress on chn 2
23 In progress on chn 3
24 In progress on chn 4
25 In progress on chn 5
26 In progress on chn 6
27 In progress on chn 7
28 PI system on
29 Channel active 1
30 Channel active 2
31 Channel active 3
32 Channel active 4
33 Channel active 5
34 Channel active 6
35 Channel active 7
CONO APR, 166 KA KL
18 Clr PDLOV unused unused
19 Clr IOT user IOB reset IOB reset
20 Clr CONS flg unused Enb flgs selected by b24:31
21 unused Clr Addr Brk flg Dis flgs selected by b24:31
22 Clr MPV Clr MPV Clr flgs selected by b24:31
23 Clr NXM Clr NXM Set flgs selected by b24:31
24 Dis CLK Int Dis CLK Int SBUS error
25 Enb CLK Int Enb CLK Int NXM error
26 Clr CLK flg Clr CLK flg In-Out Page Fail
27 Dis PC chg Int Dis FOV Int MB parity error
28 Enb PC chg Int Enb FOV Int Cache directory error
29 Clr PC chg flg Clr FOV flg Cache address parity error
30 Dis AROV Int Dis AROV Int Power fail
31 Enb AROV Int Enb AROV Int Sweep done
32 Clr AROV flg Clr AROV flg unused
33 APR PIA 4
34 APR PIA 2
35 APR PIA 1
CONI APR,
0 unused unused unused
...
5 unused unused unused
6 unused unused SBUS error enb
7 unused unused NXM error enb
8 unused unused In-Out Page fail enb
9 unused unused MB parity error enb
10 unused unused Cache directory error enb
11 unused unused Cache addr parity error enb
12 unused unused Power Fail enb
13 unused unused Sweep Done enb
14 unused unused unused
...
18 CONS flg unused unused
19 PDLOV PDLOV Sweep Busy
20 User IOT mode User IOT mode unused
21 User Mode Address Break unused
22 MPV flg MPV flg unused
23 NXM flg NXM flg unused
24 unused unused SBUS error flg
25 CLK enb CLK enb NXM error flg
26 CLK flg CLK flg In-Out page fail flg
27 unused ¬CPA INT MB parity error flg
28 PC CHG enb FOV enb Cache directory error flg
29 PC CHG flg FOV flg Cache addr parity error flg
30 unused MA Trap offset Power fail flg
31 AROV enb AROV enb Sweep done flg
32 AROV flg AROV flg Int requested flg
33 APR PIA 4
34 APR PIA 2
35 APR PIA 1
166 KA KL
PC and flags
0 AR OV [See note]
1 AR CRY0
2 AR CRY1
3 PC Change FOV
4 BIS First Part Done
5 User
6 User In-Out
7 unused unused Public
8 unused unused Address Failure Inhibit
9 unused unused Trap 2
10 unused unused Trap 1
11 unused FXU
12 unused DCK
13-17 Zero
18-35 PC
[Note: Bit 0 of the PC represents SCD PCP in exec mode, except in JFCL 10,
which tests AROV. SCD PCP is loaded from bit 0 of a PC word restored by
JRST 2, (or from a UUO or trap new PC word). PCP means previous context
public, i.e., supervisor was called from a public, not a concealed, program.]
KA10 special features:
CONI PTP, bit 28 = KEY NXM STOP
CONI TTY, bit 28 = 1 (for processor identification)
Device OAP (Other Arithmetic Processor, Device code = 20)
CONO OAP, bit 28 clear IPI APR flag
bit 29 set other processor's IPI APR flag
CONI OAP, bit 28 IPI APR flag
bit 29 Other processor's IPI APR flag
IPI APR flag requests an interrupt on the APR channel
Known differences between the Stanford A.I. Lab KA10 and standard KA10's.
1. FIX (opcode 247)
Used to make a floating point number fixed point.
2. PUSHJ doesn't clear BIS
3. Memory Subroutines in the processor have been speeded up.
4. Key NXM stop appears in the CONI PTP,
5. Permanent IOB Drum Split
6. JRST 10, and JRST 4, are illegal in User IOT mode
7. CONO PI,<set MPV>
8. BBN pager, etc.
166 special features:
CONI TTY, bit 27 = 1 (for processor identification)
IBP AC, loads the AC with the incremented byte pointer
KL10 new instructions:
APRID BLKI APR, read APR serial, options, microcode version
BLKO APR, load cache refill algorithm RAM
Writes into a 128x3 table. One BLKO per 3 bit entry.
Effective address of the instruction decodes as follows:
Bit
18 Data bit 4 New order bit
19 Data bit 2 New LRU 2
20 Data bit 1 New LRU 1
21:26 unused
27 RAM address 64 (From new MRU 2)
28 RAM address 32 (From new MRU 1)
29 RAM address 16 (From old MRU 2)
30 RAM address 8 (From old MRU 1)
31 RAM address 4 (From old order bit)
32 RAM address 2 (From old LRU 2)
33 RAM address 1 (From old LRU 1)
34:35 unused
Each (quadruple of) cache line(s) has a 5 bit field (Cache Use Bits)
to specify which of the caches was LRU, MRU and the relative order of
the other two caches. These five bits plus 2 bits of new MRU (i.e.,
the currently referenced cache) are used to index a 128 word table to
produce 3 bits of LRU and order which together with the 2 bits of new
MRU replace the 5 Cache Use bits.
DATAO APR, set state of address comp address/condition
Bit
9 Inst Fetch
10 Data Fetch
11 Write
12 (0=exec, 1=user)
13-35 VMA
DATAI APR, read state of address compare conditions
(Only bits 9-12, as in DATAO APR,)
[Address break appears to cause a page fault]
RDERA BLKI PI, read error address register
BLKO PI, SBUS diagnostic
DATAO PI, unused
DATAI PI, unused
(PAG is device 10)
DATAO PAG, Set User Context
Bit
0 Load AC blocks from bits 6-11
1 Load previous context from bits 12-17
2 Load UBR, and look at bit 18.
After storing accounting meters in old
UBR (or if bit 18 is a 1, without storing
accounting meters) clear accounting meters.
3-5 unused
6-8 Current AC block number
9-11 Previous AC block number
12 CWSX (if enabled by bit 1)
13-17 Previous section (if enabled by bit 1)
18 Inhibit storing accounting meters
If bit 2 is a 1 and bit 18 is zero,
store current accounting meters in current
UBR.
19-23 unused
24-35 User base
DATAI PAG, Read User context
BLKO PAG,E Invalidate page table entry corresponding
to the (8) page(s) addressed by (E⊗-9)&770
BLKI PAG, unused
CONO PAG, Set Exec context, cache control, trap enb
Bit
18 Cache Look
19 Cache Load
20 unused
21 KL10 paging
22 Trap and Map Enable
23-35 Exec Base register
CONI PAG, Read exec context (same as CONO PAG,)
A CONO PAG, (or a DATAO PAG, with Bit 0 a 1) will invalidate the entire
paging ram.
A UUO stores the
Process context word (UPT location 426)
60wxyz,,ubr
w=current ac block
x=previous ac block
yz=cwsx and previous section
(CCA is device 14)
SWPIA DATAI CCA, Sweep Cache, invalidate all
SWPVA BLKO CCA, Sweep Cache, validate core
SWPUA DATAO CCA, Sweep Cache, validate core, invalidate cache
SWPIO CONI CCA, Sweep Cache, invalidate one page.
b23:35 are the physical page to sweep
SWPVO CONSZ CCA, Sweep Cache, validate one page in core
SWPUO CONSO CCA, Sweep Cache, validate one page in core,
invalidate one page in cache
BLKI CCA, unused?
CONO CCA, unused?
ADJBP IBP AC, if AC field is zero, this is IBP; if AC
is non zero, C(AC) is the byte pointer
adjustment, i.e., the number of times to
increment (decrement) the byte pointer.
Resulting byte pointer is stored in AC.
Unlike IBP, ADJBP maintains the same
alignment of bytes in the word as in the
original byte pointer, e.g.,
IBP 000700,,1000 → 350700,,1001
whereas adjusting by 1 the same pointer
produces 340700,,1001
DADD C(AC,AC+1)+C(E,E+1) → C(AC,AC+1)
DSUB C(AC,AC+1)-C(E,E+1) → C(AC,AC+1)
DMUL C(AC,AC+1)*C(E,E+1) → C(AC,AC+1,AC+2,AC+3)
DDIV C(AC,AC+1,AC+2,AC+3)/C(E,E+1) →
C(AC,AC+1) quotient, C(AC+2,AC+3) remainder
ADJSP AC,E C(AC)+E,,E → C(AC). Carry out of bit 18
is inhibited. (Note this is immediate mode)
MAP
Other differences
In BLT the KL10 always stores in AC the updated BLT pointer, which
will contain <one beyond source>,,<one beyond destination>.
DTE20 KL10 I/O Functions
CONO DTE0,
18:21 unused
22 DONG11 KL10 requests service by the 11
23 clear RELOAD PDP11 button
24 set RELOAD PDP11 button
25 unused
26 Clear DONG10 PDP-10 has responded to interrupt from 11
27 unused
28 unused
29 clear TO-11 Normal Termination and TO-11 Error Termination
30 clear TO-10 Normal Termination and TO-10 Error Termination.
31 enable loading bits 32:35
32 Set PI0 ENABLE (if enabled by bit 31)
[This is ignored on a privileged 11]
33:35 PIA
CONI DTE0, [Bits marked with * request interrupts]
00:19 unused
20 1 if this DTE is restricted, 0 if privileged.
21 PDP-11 Power failure
22 DONG11 KL10 requests service by the 11
23 unused
24 unused
25 unused
26 *DONG10 PDP-11 requests an interrupt on the KL10
27 *TO-11 Error Termination
28 unused
29 *TO-11 Normal Termination
30 *TO-10 Normal Termination
31 *TO-10 Error Termination
32 PI0 Enable
33:35 PIA 4,2,1 (1)
DATAI DTE0, unassigned. Makes EBUS parity errors.
DATAO DTE0,E
00:22 unused
23 bit → TO-10 I BIT
24:35 bits → EBHOLD 11-00
[Bit 23 a zero means that when the TO-10 transfer completes,
only the 10 (not the 11) will be interrupted. This
permits scatter read under control of the 10]
[Bits 24:35 are a negative byte count of the number of bytes
to transfer before giving a normal termination interrupt.
0 means transfer 0 bytes.]
Clocks and meters
There are 5 "clocks", each is actually a counter of some kind:
Interval 100 KHz 12 bits EPT 514 (vector)
Time base 1 MHz rate 52 bits EPT 510-511
Performance 52 bits EPT 512-513
EBOX cycle count 1/2 EBOX clock rate 52 bits UPT 504-505
MBOX cycle count 1 per EBOX mem req. 52 bits UPT 506-507
The MBOX clock counter and EBOX clock counter are together referred to as
the "Accounting Meters." All 52 bit clocks actually are double words in
in memory with 16 bits of each counter implemented in hardware too.
The 52 bit clocks are read with DATAI or BLKI which produce a double word
result suitable for DADD etc. The low 12 bits of the low order counter
words are zero (in the hopes that a faster, compatible format clock
will be available on future machines).
MTR is 24, TIM is 20.
CONO MTR, Accounting and Timebase Control, Interval Timer PIA
18 Enable bits 21:23
19 unused
20 unused
21 PI Acct Enable
22 Exec Acct Enable
23 Acct On
24 Turn off timebase
25 Turn on timebase
26 Clear Timebase
27 unused
28 unused
29 unused
30 unused
31 unused
32 unused
33 Interval timer PIA 4
34 Interval timer PIA 2
35 Interval timer PIA 1
The accounting meters are enabled by:
(Acct On) ∧
(User ∨ ¬PI in progress ∨ PI Acct Enable) ∧
(User ∨ PI in prog ∨ Exec Acct Enb)
When turned on, the accounting meters are enabled to count in user
mode, regardless of PI level. Also, if Exec Acct Enb is true, meters
are enabled at UUO level (exec mode not PI in progress). Also, if PI
Acct Enable is true, meters are enabled while PI in progress. The
meters are disabled by either PI cycle or Ucode State 3.
When enabled, the MBOX meter counts when the MBOX finishes a
memory cycle requsted by the EBOX. When enabled, the EBOX meter
counts every second MBOX clock tick unless the EBOX is waiting for
the MBOX.
CONI MTR,
0:17 Unused
18 unused
19 unused
20 unused
21 PI Acct Enable
22 Exec Acct Enable
23 Acct on
24 unused
25 Timebase on
26 unused
27 unused
28 unused
29 unused
30 unused
31 unused
32 unused
33 Interval meter PIA 4
34 Interval meter PIA 2
35 Interval meter PIA 1
CONO TIM,
18 Clear Up Counter
19 unused
20 unused
21 1=Turn on, 0=turn off interval timer
22 Clear Interval Done and Interval Overflow
23 Unused
24:35 Load Period Register
CONI TIM,
0:5 Unused
6:17 Up counter
18:20 unused
21 Interval Timer On
22 *Interval Timer Done
23 *Interval Overflow
24:35 Period register
[When the Up Counter reaches the value specified in
the period register, it sets Interval Timer Done
and resets the up counter to zero.
Interval timer interrupts execute location 514 in the EPT.
If you set a period that's smaller than the current
value of the Up Counter, Up Counter Overflow will
be set (after the up counter reaches maximum value).]
Timebase
DATAI TIM, [read doubleword timebase]
Accounting meters
DATAI MTR, [read doubleword EBOX meter]
BLKI MTR, [read doubleword MBOX meter]
seconds of KL10 time = EBOX/12,500,000 + MBOX*<avg. memory cycle time>
DATAO PAG, with bit 2 set will reset the UBR. Unless bit 18 is set
to inhibit storing accounting meters (useful if there's no old UPT),
the old EBOX and MBOX counters are added to the old UPT 504-507. The
meters are cleared.
DATAO TIM, [unused]
Performance Analysis
BLKO TIM, set performance counter enables
0 Internal Channel 0 Busy Enb A
1 Internal Channel 1 Busy Enb A
2 Internal Channel 2 Busy Enb A
3 Internal Channel 3 Busy Enb A
4 Internal Channel 4 Busy Enb A
5 Internal Channel 5 Busy Enb A
6 Internal Channel 6 Busy Enb A
7 Internal Channel 7 Busy Enb A
8 Internal Channel Don't Care A
9 Microcode State Don't Care B
10 ECL probe low PA enb C
11 ECL probe don't care C
12 ¬Cache Request Enb D
13 ¬Cache Fill (miss) Enb D
14 ¬Cache (Ebox) writeback Enb D
15 ¬Cache Sweep Enb D
16 Cache don't care D
17 unused
18 PI 0 PA enb E
19 PI 1 PA enb E
20 PI 2 PA enb E
21 PI 3 PA enb E
22 PI 4 PA enb E
23 PI 5 PA enb E
24 PI 6 PA enb E
25 PI 7 PA enb E
26 No PI PA enb E
27 User PA enb F
28 Mode PA don't care F
29 1=event mode; 0=Duration mode
30 clear perf meter
31 Unused
32 Unused
33 unused
34 unused
35 unused
BLKI TIM, read doubleword performance analysis counter
A Boolean condition consisting of the AND of six terms is formed.
In duration mode, while this condition is true, the performance meter
is counted at half the MBOX clock rate. In event mode, every transition
of this condition from False to True is counted. The condition is the
AND of six terms (designated A, B, C, D, E and F, to correspond to
the description of BLKO TIM, above).
A: ((Internal Channel n Busy)∧(Internal channel n Busy Enb)) ∨
(Internal channel don't care)
B: (Microcode state 01) ∨ (Microcode state don't care)
C: ((ECL probe state low enb)≠(Probe)) ∨ (ECL Probe don't care)
D: ((Fill cache read) ∧ (Cache fill enb)) ∨
((EBOX waiting) ∧ (cache request enb)) ∨
((EBOX writeback) ∧ (EBOX writeback enb)) ∨
((Sweep writeback) ∧ (sweep writeback enb)) ∨
(Cache don't care)
E: ((PI n is highest channel held or cycling) ∧ (PI n PA enb)) ∨
((No PI channel is held)∧(No PI PA enb))
F: ((User mode)≡(User PA enb)) ∨ (Mode PA don't care)
DATAO MTR, unused
BLKO MTR, unused
KL10 to PDP-11 command word formats.
(CTY Typeout, etc)
The command word, $DTCMD (EPT location 451), has the following signifigance.
Bits 24:27 are the command type. Bits 28:35 are the command argument.
Command type:
00 0000 CTY output. Bits 29:35 are the character.
01 0400 Program Control. Bits 32:35 specify subfunction:
00 PDP-10 halted
01 FATAL error
02 Error halt
03 End of Program
04 End of Pass
05 Read the clock default word to $DTF11.
BYTE(4)CCHENB(26)0(3)CLKS,CLKR
CCHENB = cache enables:
10 - cache 0
04 - cache 1
02 - cache 2
01 - cache 3
CLKS = clock source
CLKR = clock rate
06 DIAMON file selection
07 DIAMON file read
10 PDP-10 program command to 11
11:17 unused.
02 1000 Clock. Bits 34:35 decode as follows:
0 Disable. TENCLK←0;
1 Enable. TENCLK←-1;
Wait for clock to tick; CLKCNT←0;
2 Enable and wait.
TENCLK←-400; C10CW←$DTT11;
Wait for clock to tick; CLKCNT←0;
3 Read PDP-10 Clock count. $DTF11←CLKCNT;
When the clock ticks and TENCLK≠0, CLKCNT is
incremented, then if TENCLK=-1 or
(TENCLK=-400 and the low word of CLKCNT = C10CW)
then $DTCLK←-1 and a 10 interrupt is requested
via the DTE20.
[The following are Stanford additions:]
4 Set time base. TIMBAS←@DTT11;
5 Read time base. @DTT11←TIMBAS;
[The timebase is a 47 bit count of 60ths.
The origin is whatever you want (70,000 years).
Reading and setting the timebase use a double word
integer pointed to by DTT11 (the address is always
a to-11 argument).]
03 1400 Read switches into $DTF11.
The switches are simulated in PDP-11 hardware
and software. PDP-11 switches 15:00 correspond
to bits 0:15 in the PDP-10 switches. The remainder
are set by the SW command in KLDCP
0 Read Switch
1 Read Switch, Enable auto deposit into DTSWR
2 Read Switch, Disable auto deposit
04 2000 CTY output. Same as function 0
05 2400 CTY input.
This function appears to wait for all output to
finish and then wait for a complete line to be
typed before returning any non-null characters to
the 10. The 10 won't hang because of various
timeouts. Line editing would seem to be handled
by the 11.
06 3000 Print Control. Bits 28:35 are stored in $FORCE in KLDCP
If $FORCE≠0 then force typeout despite ↑O,
despite pdp-11 switches, despite selection of LPT.
07 3400 DDT mode input. Character returned in $DTF11.
A null is returned in case of timeout.
Force all typeout. Return (on a character, not
a line basis) the characters as they're typed.
10 4000 Monitor TTY mode output
11 4400 Monitor TTY mode control on. (Set MONMOD)
12 5000 Monitor TTY mode control off. (Clear MONMOD)
13 5400 Monitor TTY state
Returns status of Monitor TTY mode (MONMOD)
When MONMOD≠0 the main loop of KLDCP behaves
differently.
TTY input:
$DTF11←character; $DTMTI←-1; 11 rings 10.
TTY output (function 10) character is immediately
sent to the CTY (which had better be ready).
When the CTY output is finished, $DTMTD←-1;
11 rings 10.
14 6000 unused. use of these commands is a programming error
15 6400 unused.
16 7000 unused.
17 7400 unused.
KL10 UPT/EPT Special Locations
EPT
42-57 Standard Prioity interrupt locations
142 DTE0 Vector Interrupt Instruction
; BY THE 11 EVERY TICK)
421 Exec AROV Trap Instruction
422 Exec PDLOV Trap Instruction
423 Exec TRAP-3 Trap Instruction
444 DTE20 OPERATION COMPLETE FLAG
445 CLOCK INTERRUPT FLAG
447 TO 11 ARGUMENT
450 FROM 11 ARGUMENT
451 TO 11 COMMAND WORD
454 LAST KEY STRUCK ON CTY
455 MONITOR TTY OUTPUT DONE FLAG
456 MONITOR TTY INPUT READY FLAG
457 PDP-10 SWITCH REGISTER (DEPOSITED HERE)
510-511 Time base
512-513 Performance Analyis count
514 Interval Timer Vector Interrupt Instruction
UPT
421 User AROV Trap Instruction
422 User PDLOV Trap Instruction
423 User TRAP-3 Trap Instruction
424 MUUO stored here
425 MUUO old PC word
426 Process Context Word
430 Kernel No Trap PC word
431 Kernel Trap PC word
432 Supervisor No Trap PC word
433 Supervisor Trap PC word
434 Concealed No Trap PC word
435 Concealed Trap PC word
436 Public No Trap PC word
437 Public Trap PC word
500 Page Fail Word
501 Page Fail Old PC
502 Page Fail New PC
504-505 EBOX meter word
506-507 MBOX meter word
Monitor Programming
UUOs from user mode will set Previous Context User (PCU = Bit 6 in PC)
and set current ac block = 0; previous ac block=1.
UUOs from kernal mode will clear PCU set current ac=0, previous=1.
Context switching:
When the map is changed, the previous context acs should be changed
too. That is, contents of AC block 1 should be saved in old user's
shadow, and new contents of block 1 should be loaded from new user's
shadow.
All bare machine programs will have to be changed for the KL10. Interfaces
to CTY, IOP, DC (and thus MTA, DTA) have been changed.
When taking an interrupt (by a JSR) some user mode PC flags are kept in the
new (exec mode) PC. One of these is AR OV (bit 0) which regretably means
PCP (previous context public) in exec mode. Therefore, on all interrupts
where user core will be referenced, PCP should be cleared in the exec mode
PC.
CONO PI,<Turn off selected channel> is not effective immediately. This
means that all channel's interrupt code must test for the condition
of being in progress on a channel that's been turned off. If that condition
is detected, and it isn't the case that this channel was GEN'ed on, then
the interrupt should be dismissed.
CONO PI,<generate interrupt on selected channel> has two peculiarities.
If the GEN is aimed at a higher priority channel then it isn't immediately
effective. In this case, the CONO PI,<GEN channel> should be followed by
a logical no-op that requires an EBUS cycle such as CONO PI,PION.
If the GEN is aimed at a lower priority channel then one should beware
the fact that the GEN isn't effective until after the present channel is
dismissed. If it's necessary to get to a lower priority channel without
returing to the interrupted process then you must dismiss to an exec mode
loop or something.
KL10 Folklore (from MIT)
Sometimes an MF10 memory gets hung. Often the INC RQ light will be
on. Sometimes raising the RESET switch inside the memory's front door
will help; sometimes a module in the port control is fried. (Any of
several modules.)
TU41 blower belt has to be the correct belt, has to not be worn out,
and has to have pulleys aligned. Otherwise it drops off or breaks
and tape rotates backwards.
RP04 oscillating seeks & Maytag mode when loading => tachometer output
needs to be adjusted.
When powering machine back on, circuit breaker in disk DF10 may trip.
When powering machine back on, sometimes disk #0 needs to be stopped,
powered off and on, and started again, to reset the two-massbus
switch.
If DECtape motor doesn't win, may be G848 seating problem.
If kicking the LA36 causes power fail, "power warn" lead to top left
edge of CPU backplane needs to be disconnected. (Apparently the other
end is unconnected.) [Missing ECO in 863.]
Bad door-open switches (?) in MF10. Memories have to be operated with
over-ride turned on.
Apparently power supplies in CPU and IO box can drift voltages.
Apparently air-flow sensors can fail sporadically. I am told that
disconnecting one => indication of good airflow.
RP04 attention/error conditions are super-random.
Often mysterious marginality is caused by bad seating of modules.
CONO'ing a PI channel off doesn't necessarily prevent it from
interrupting. It works to have each interrupt routine do CONSO to make
sure the channel is enabled, and dismiss if not.
Before running a memory diagnostic, do PE 0, because the memory
diagnostics don't know how to handle parity faults.
MF10's always fail solidly.
Obscure cases in the microcode tend to have bugs. E.g. you could
interrupt out of a PI cycle, hence BLKI/BLKO as interrupt instructions
tended to be flakey.
When running any diagnostic, even the 'DG' series, you better reload with old
microcode (U.RAM).
When running DDDFA the channel has to be in KA mode. This is a bug in the program.
User programming differences between the KL10 and the KA10.
Including some information pertaining to the 8.00 series operating
system.
6/13/76 REG
Preliminary information. For further details, consult REG or JBR.
AOBJN
KA10 adds 1,,1 to the AC. The KL does the same, but suppresses the
carry out of bit 18. That is, if AC contains X,,-1 then on the KA
the result of AOBJN is X+2,,0 and on the KL the result is X+1,,0.
Byte pointers
If the right half of a byte pointer is -1, the KA10 incrementing the
word address will produce a carry into the index field (the result of
an ILDB or IDPB in this circumstance is unpredictable). On the KL10,
carry out of bit 18 is suppressed.
BLT
On the KA10 the AC of a BLT instruction is unpredictably changed by
the BLT. On the KL10, before any data is moved, the quantity <last
source address+1>,,<last destination address+1> is stored in the BLT
AC. If the BLT AC is stored by the BLT (i.e., as a destination) then
it ought to be the last destination location, otherwise, effects of
interrupts may clobber the BLT AC.
Processor identification
The following code will distinguish between a PDP-6, KA10, KI10 and KL10,
in case you need to make this distinction in some program:
JFCL 17,.+1 ;CLEAR ALL PC FLAGS
JRST .+1 ;TEST FOR PC CHANGE FLAG
JFCL 1,PDP6 ;ONLY PDP-6 PROCESSOR HAS PC CHANGE FLAG
MOVNI AC,1 ;TEST FOR CARRY OUT OF BIT 18 IN AOBJN
AOBJN AC,.+1
JUMPN AC,KA10 ;KA10 CARRIES ACROSS HALFWORDS
MOVEI AC,0 ;ON A 1 WORD BLT, THE KI10 WON'T
BLT AC,0 ;CHANGE THE BLT AC.
JUMPE AC,KI10 ;IF BLT AC IS STILL ZERO, THIS IS A KI
KL10:
JRST 3, which sometimes appears in spacewar modules, is illegal.
Instead, use JRST 2, and set 10000,,0 in the word being indirected
through.
CONSZ APR,40 and CONSO APR,40 to distinguish between processors
should NOT be used. Instead, locations 326 (SKIPP1) and 327 (SKIPP2)
contain instructions, which when executed from a spacewar module,
will skip if executed on P1 or skip if executed on P2. The
instructions should be read into your core image by a PEEK UUO or
somesuch executed at user level (prior to starting your spacewar
module).
The KA10 and PDP-6 FIX instruction, opcode 247 on the KA (and 120-127
and 247 on the PDP-6), does not exist in the KL10. It will, however,
trap to the monitor which will simulate the effect of the old FIX
instruction. This simulation may readily be expected to run 50 to
200 times slower than the KA10 version. It's strongly recommended
that the new KL10 FIX instruction (mnemonic KIFIX in FAIL) be used
instead. (KIFIX is different from KAFIX. See below.)
The KA10 long mode floating point instructions (FADL, FSBL, FMPL,
FDVL) and two other floating point instructions UFA and DFN are not
implemented in our KL10's microcode. These instructions will trap as
UUOs and be simulated by the monitor, running 50 to 200 times slower
than the KA10 versions. If your program uses these to implement KA10
style double precision floating point, then you are strongly advised
to convert to KL10 hardware double precision format.
UUOs from spacewar mode on the KL10 will reference the spacewar level
accumulators (instead of the user mode accumulators).
Spacewar no longer runs PI in progress on PI channel 7. Instead it
runs at user level (i.e., not PI in progress anywhere) and channel
7 activity is curtailed except for the spacewar timeout function.
Proprietors of programs that do disk I/O in buffered mode should
consider increasing the number of buffers. Reasonable choices for
the number of buffers are 19, 10, 7, and 5. In general, your program
will be able to process data 5 times faster, so that minimizing the
number of disk operations needed by you program will decrease its
overall running time (but not its CPU time) and decrease the disk
bottleneck. There is no advantage to having more than 19 buffers per
channel. If your program is largely compute bound, increasing the
buffer size won't help very much. The disadvantage to having more
buffers is that it increases the total core requirement of the job.
KL10 New instructions: [Note that if you use these instructions, your
program can't be run on the KA10. If we roll back, you get to
rewrite your program. The safest thing to do is to wait until the
KL10 is solid, or write programs that figure out which CPU is up, and
execute only appropriate instructions.]
Adjust byte pointer
IBP AC,E If the AC field of an IBP instruction is not zero,
then AC contains the number of times to increment the byte pointer
addressed by E. The incremented byte pointer is returned in AC with
contents of E unchanged. The "increment" may be negative. NOTE:
This instruction does not always produce the same result as an
iterated IBP. The difference is that the same byte alignment that is
present in C(E) is preserved by Adjust Byte pointer (if an IBP
crosses a word boundary the bytes become left adjusted in a word).
Example of the difference:
MOVEI AC,1 ;(AC ≠ 0)
IBP AC,[000700,,0] ;result (in AC) is 340700,,1
;000700 points to right adjusted
;7 bit bytes as does 340700
MOVE AC,[000700,,0]
MOVEM AC,TEMP
IBP TEMP ;result (in TEMP) is 350700,,1
;350700 points to left adjusted bytes
ADJSP AC,E
Adjust stack pointer. E,,E is added to AC (carry out of bit
18 is suppressed). If the sign of AC changes, a PDLOV trap results.
E may be negative.
Double precision integer arithmetic. Operands are 70 bits and a sign
bit (bit 0 of low order word is ignored). This is the same integer
format that is produced by MUL.
In the descriptions that follow, "AC+1", "AC+2", and "AC+3" are all meant
to be taken modulo 20 (octal).
DADD AC,E
C(AC, AC+1) ← C(AC, AC+1) + C(E, E+1)
DSUB AC,E
C(AC, AC+1) ← C(AC, AC+1) - C(E, E+1)
DMUL AC,E
C(AC, AC+1, AC+2, AC+3) ← C(AC, AC+1) * C(E, E+1)
DDIV AC,E
C(AC, AC+1) ← Quotient of C(AC, AC+1, AC+2, AC+3) / C(E, E+1)
C(AC+2, AC+3) ← Remainder of C(AC, AC+1, AC+2, AC+3) / C(E, E+1)
EXTEND
USERS ARE ADVISED TO AVOID "EXTEND".
Various conversion and string manipulation operations are
available. Details will be forthcoming when we decide what subset of
the DEC EXTEND instruction to implement. We're short on microcode
space so some of the DEC supplied EXTEND code may have to be
sacrificed. The existing microcode for EXTEND has not been extensively
tested; it may be buggy, especially with respect to interrupts.
DMOVE AC,E
C(AC, AC+1) ← C(E, E+1)
DMOVN AC,E
C(AC, AC+1) ← -C(E, E+1)
DMOVEM AC,E
C(E, E+1) ← C(AC, AC+1)
DMOVNM AC,E
C(E, E+1) ← -C(AC, AC+1)
DFAD AC,E
C(AC, AC+1) ← C(AC, AC+1) + C(E, E+1)
DFSB AC,E
C(AC, AC+1) ← C(AC, AC+1) - C(E, E+1)
DFMP AC,E
C(AC, AC+1) ← C(AC, AC+1) * C(E, E+1)
DFSB AC,E
C(AC, AC+1) ← C(AC, AC+1) / C(E, E+1)
KIFIX AC,E
AC ← contents of E (a floating point number) converted to integer format.
Truncation of the fraction moves the result closer to zero. (E.g., 1.9 is
truncated to 1, -1.9 is truncated to -1). (Fortran style IFIX)
FIXR AC,E
AC ← contents of E (a floating point number) converted to integer format.
Fractional part is rounded by adding 0.5 and then truncating towards -∞.
(E.g., 1.5 is rounded to 2, -1.5 is rounded to -1, -1.6 is rounded to -2)
(Algol style real to integer conversion).
FLTR AC,E
AC ← contents of E (an integer) converted (by rounding, if needed) to
floating point format.
KL10 PC flag bit assignments:
0 AR OV
1 AR CRY0
2 AR CRY1
3 FOV
4 FPD (First Part Done, essentially the same as BIS)
5 User
6 User In-Out
7 Public (Setting this bit causes a proprietary violation)
8 Address Failure Inhibit
9 Trap 2
10 Trap 1
11 FXU
12 DCK
13-17 Zero
18-35 PC
All bare machine programs will have to be changed for the KL10.
Interfaces to CTY, IOP, DC (and thus MTA, DTA) have been changed.
Any programs that reference these from IOT user mode or spacewar mode
are now incorrect.
Reloading the KL10
RELOADING:
0. If there has been a power failure, go to 100.
1. If a message such as "KL10 Halted .... " appears followed by
">." at the left margin go to step 3. The important part is that
">." should appear to signify that KLDCP is listening.
2. Type ↑X (i.e., control X). The response should be "KLDCP" and a
crlf and a period. You may sometimes have to wait a few seconds for
this response. If you don't get a period or ">." at the left margin,
go to 100.
3. Type "DS" and return. If you get the response "DSKDMP" go to
step 4, otherwise, try "MR" and then "DS" (each terminated by
return). If you don't get "DSKDMP" as a response to DS, then if
the KA10 is runing, stop it and repeat this step. If you get
"DEPOSIT/EXAMINE ERROR IN DS" then perform step 103 and repeat step 3.
If the KA10 is stopped and DS doesn't get you "DSKDMP", go to 100.
4. Type "SYSTEM" and return to DSKDMP. If the system reloads and
starts you are winning. Otherwise, if the KA10 is running, stop it
and repeat steps 3 and 4. If the KA10 is stopped and DSKDMP still
doesn't work, you need help.
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Don't come here unless directed by the steps above.
100. Start the PDP-11 at 100014. [Set 100014 in the PDP-11 switches,
press halt, then move halt back to it's upper position, press load address
then press start.] If the console types "Stanford KL10 Diagnositic Console
Program" (or something like that) then you've got a KLDCP to talk to. Go to
102.
101. Make sure a dectape labeled "KL10 bootstrap" is mounted on a PDP-11
dectape drive that is selected to unit 0 and is enabled for "remote"
(i.e., computer) operation. Press "LOAD DECTAPE" [located above and to
the left of the red "Emergency Power Off" button] and hold it for
at least a slow count to one. The dectape should spin and eventually
something like "TCDP monitor" should be typed. Type in "KLDCP" and
return. KLDCP should load and type a message - Go to 102.
If you don't get to "TCDP" you might try pressing the LOAD DECTAPE button
again. If you get to TCDP and the "KLDCP" command doesn't work, call for
help.
102. If there's been a power failure you will have to reload the
KL10's microcode. Type "LR SU" to KLDCP. If any error messages are
printed, you need help.
103. [Only if there's been a power failure, or in other exceptional
circumstances] After loading the microcode, you must configure the
memory adapter. One of the commands "I X1", "I X2", or "I X4" should
be used. Currently "I X4" is right, and if that changes, this should
be changed too.
104. If the command DS doesn't work, then load DSKDMP boot into the PDP-11
by "LD BOOT"
105. You should now be able to perform steps 3 and 4, but if that doesn't
work, you need help.
Help: REG (9) 326-5879
JBR (9) 494-3597