mouses-r0.zip   FC, 11-Jul-2012

This contains the files required to boot and run Mouses.
You will also need the Interdata32 version of SIMH (id32) from
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/  (I used the Windows executable 
version.)

To boot after unzipping, with id32.exe copied into the same directory:

   C>id32
   ...
   sim> 

At this point, you should start a telnet client and connect it to 
port 16666 (the port defined in id32.ini).  Configure your telnet
client to emulate a VT100 if you want to try VECCE.

Then go back to the simulator window and enter:

   sim>cont      (you type "cont" then Enter)

The simulator should then show Mouses console output.  To log in,
go back to the telnet window, wait fifteen seconds (for the OPER 
process to run) then hit the Space bar to get the system's attention 
and bring up the "User:" prompt.  The username and password actually 
are "user" and "pass"; those are not placeholders:

   User:user
   Pass:pass
   Process started <date> <time>
   Command:help
   Command:files
   Command:copy readme

To shut down cleanly, log off USER (Command:stop) and log in as
OPER:

   User:oper
   Pass:pass
   Process started <date> <time>
   Command: unload user
   Command: stop

The explicit UNLOAD should flush everything to disc (the system disc
is read-only anyway).  Then back in the SIMH (console) window, hit 
<Ctrl-E> to get a sim> prompt:

   sim>quit

The zipped files contained here are:

ID32.INI:  SIMH initialisation commands.  Note that there is a break-
   point set just after the supervisor disarms all the device interrupts
   (after label "supervise:").  The .ini file attaches discs etc. to 
   host files _after_ this point, otherwise things don't work.
   This breakpoint address (and the initial stack pointer address)
   both depend on the particular build of the OS.  Fixing this would 
   involve fixing the "disarm" issue and finding the right paper-
   tape bootstrap: the one in the history archive seems to be an
   OS/32 one.

MOUSES.BOO:  A memory image of the system, expressed as a (long)
   sequence of SIMH memory "deposit" commands.  This was generated
   using the tools in the separate mouses-devel-r0.zip archive.

SYSX.DSC:  System disc image.  This image was reconstituted in March
   2012 from the files in the online Edinburgh Computer History 
   archive, using the tools in mouses-devel-r0.zip; it is _not_
   a preserved original bit stream.

USER.DSC:  User disc image, made from scratch and _not_ an archived
   original.

SWOP.ORG:  Template for an empty swop disc, again made from scratch.

Have fun!
FC