[HECnet] KLH-10 TOPS-10 DECnet Executor Configuration Persistence

[Supratim Sanyal]

Thanks G., give me a couple of days to digest this and report back.

On 3/11/20 2:13 PM, G. wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 09:29:02 -0400, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
>
>>> As far as I remember, you have to relink the monitor.
>> [...]
>> So yes please walk me through getting a 704dcn image with 31.37 burnt
>> into it.
> Here we go, for you and everyone else :)
>
> 1. First of all make sure you have a complete set of monitor sources in
> [10,7,MON]. If you followed either the Software Installation Guide or some
> online tutorial you should be okay. In particular make sure that you have
> the following:
>
>      [10,7,MON]S.MAC
>      [10,7,MON]DEVPRM.MAC
>      [10,7,MON]DTEPRM.MAC
>      [10,7,MON]NETPRM.MAC
>      [10,7,MON]D36PAR.MAC
>      [10,7,MON]COMMON.MAC
>      [10,7,MON]COMDEV.MAC
>      [10,7,MON]COMMOD.MAC
>      [10,7,MON]CLOCK1.MAC
>
> 2. Also make sure you have REL:TOPS10.REL and [10,7,MON]MONGEN.EXE
>
> 3. Make a backup copy of the original TOPS10.REL. I like to preserve the
> timestamp of original files, therefore I do a rename followed by a copy of
> the renamed file (I have adopted .DEC as the extension for original files)
>
>      .RENAME REL:TOPS10.DEC=REL:TOPS10.REL
>      .COPY REL:TOPS10.REL=REL:TOPS10.DEC     (destination=source)
>
> 4. Change your default to [10,7,MON]
>
>      .R SETSRC
>      *CP [10,7,MON]
>      *^Z
>
> 5. Make a backup copy of CLOCK1.MAC as you did for TOPS10.REL
>
> 6. Open CLOCK1.MAC with any editor of your choice (SOS, EDIT, etc.) and
> modify it as follows:
>
>      Before:  SOJG   6,1     ;AC1 - DON'T CAUSE EXCESSIVE MEMORY INTERFERENCE
>      After:   CONO   740,1   ;AC1 - DON'T CAUSE EXCESSIVE MEMORY INTERFERENCE
>
> (I have removed some white space to fit either line in 78 characters)
>
> The address in the above CONO instruction must match the address of the
> idler in the emulator configuration. Several online tutorials suggest 700
> but for some reason 740 should be a safer choice (I forgot the specifics,
> nonetheless some post in alt.sys.pdp10 may have some explanation)
>
> 7. Compile CLOCK1.MAC (it will create CLOCK1.REL)
>
>      .COMPIL/COMPIL CLOCK1
>
> 8. Replace the CLOCK1 module from CLOCK1.REL in TOPS10.REL
>
>      .R MAKLIB
>   *REL:TOPS10.REL=REL:TOPS10.REL/MASTER:CLOCK1,DSK:CLOCK1.REL/REPLACE:CLOCK1
>      *REL:TOPS10.REL=REL:TOPS10.REL/INDEX
>      *^Z
>
> (Indexing is optional but will speed up relinks)
>
> 9. Run the monitor configuration utility. It will ask lots of questions,
> note that most defaults will be okay. I have attached to this message a
> sample record of a generation of mine. Obviously some parameters such as the
> system name and address will have to be customized. Values in the decimal
> and octal "symbol,value" sections are specific for my installation and could
> be safely skipped. If you answer YES to the first question the utility will
> generate a MONGEN.MIC file with a record of your input for later reference:
>
>      .R MONGEN
>      Write MONGEN.MIC (YES,NO) : YES
>      [...]
>
> The latest Software installation Guide contains a guide of the whole
> procedure (chapter 9). You can find it at the following address:
> http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/tops10v704_docc/01/10,7/docupd/sig.mem.html
>
> 10. With any editor of your choice create a MONBLD.MIC procedure file
> containing the following lines:
>
>      .DAYTIME
>      .COMPILE/COMPILE F,S
>      .COMPILE/COMPILE DEVPRM,DTEPRM,NETPRM,D36PAR
>      .COMPILE/COMPILE SYSCNF+<COMMON,COMDEV,COMMOD>
>      .R LINK
>      *SYSTEM/SAVE/NOINITIAL/HASH:13K = /LOCALS -
>      *COMMON,COMDEV,COMMOD,REL:TOPS10/SEARCH-
>      */PATCH:200/COUNTERS/GO
>      .DIRECT/DETAIL SYSTEM.EXE
>      .DAYTIME
>
> Initial dots and asterisks are required. It's important that a space be
> present between /LOCALS and the following hyphen or it will not work.
>
> 11. Execute the relink procedure you created in the previous step:
>
>      .DO MONBLD
>
> It will take from a few seconds to a few minutes and will create a new
> SYSTEM.EXE monitor file in the current directory.
>
> 12. Copy the new monitor to the system directory giving it some unique name:
>
>      .COPY SYS:TRYMON.EXE=DSK:SYSTEM.EXE
>
> 13. Reboot your system and type the name of your new monitor at the BOOT>
> prompt. Unless you have some strange configuration it should be enough for
> it to find it, otherwise type its full path:
>
>      BOOT>TRYMON
>
> 14. If everything works as intended you could either copy or rename your new
> monitor as SYS:SYSTEM.EXE so that it would be loaded by default during boot
> by just pressing the return key.
>
> Whenever you will need a new monitor it will be enough to just change your
> default to [10,7,MON] and then run MONGEN and MONBLD as above. If you want
> to avoid running the whole MONGEN every time you could also directly edit
> either SYSCNF.MAC and/or F.MAC and then run MONBLD.
>
> Let me know if it works or if I have forgot something, :)
> G.
>
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