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Jeffrey H. Johnson (38b95f42) at 02 Apr 21:45 Minor documentation updates

← Older revision Revision as of 00:23, 11 February 2025 (7 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) Line 7: Line 7:   ! style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color:#CCDDEE;" | ... [More] Status   ! style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color:#CCDDEE;" | Status   ! style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color:#CCDDEE; width: 90px;" | Status Date   ! style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color:#CCDDEE; width: 90px;" | Status Date   + |-   + | style="text-align: center;" | MCR10147   + | style="text-align: center;" | [mailto:[email protected] Eric Swenson]   + | style="font-weight: bold;" |  [https://s3.amazonaws.com/eswenson-multics/public/mcrs/MCR10147.pdf Add MVN test to et_scripts ]   + | style="text-align: center;" | In progress   + | style="text-align: center;" | 2025-02-09   + |-   + | style="text-align: center;" | MCR10146   + | style="text-align: center;" | [mailto:[email protected] Eric Swenson]   + | style="font-weight: bold;" |  [https://s3.amazonaws.com/eswenson-multics/public/mcrs/MCR10146-v1.2.pdf Fix Issue With PRPH DSKn Card Parsing ]   + | style="text-align: center;" | In progress   + | style="text-align: center;" | 2025-02-08   + |-   + | style="text-align: center;" | MCR10145   + | style="text-align: center;" | [mailto:[email protected] Eric Swenson]   + | style="font-weight: bold;" |  [https://s3.amazonaws.com/eswenson-multics/public/mcrs/MCR10145-v1.0.pdf Fix issue with operator detach command ]   + | style="text-align: center;" | In progress   + | style="text-align: center;" | 2025-02-06   |-   |-   | style="text-align: center;" | MCR10144   | style="text-align: center;" | MCR10144   | style="text-align: center;" | [mailto:[email protected] Eric Swenson]   | style="text-align: center;" | [mailto:[email protected] Eric Swenson] − | style="font-weight: bold;" |  [https://s3.amazonaws.com/eswenson-multics/public/mcrs/MCR10144-v1.1.pdf CAM Wait Workaround for Loaded Host Systems ] + | style="font-weight: bold;" |  [https://s3.amazonaws.com/eswenson-multics/public/mcrs/MCR10144-v1.3.pdf CAM Wait Workaround for Loaded Host Systems ]   | style="text-align: center;" | In progress   | style="text-align: center;" | In progress − | style="text-align: center;" | 2025-02-02 + | style="text-align: center;" | 2025-02-06   |-   |-   | style="text-align: center;" | MCR10143   | style="text-align: center;" | MCR10143 Line 46: Line 64:   | style="text-align: center;" | MCR10138   | style="text-align: center;" | MCR10138   | style="text-align: center;" | [mailto:[email protected] Eric Swenson]   | style="text-align: center;" | [mailto:[email protected] Eric Swenson] − | style="font-weight: bold;" |  [https://s3.amazonaws.com/eswenson-multics/public/mcrs/MCR10138-v1.2.pdf Fix bug in ipc $block That Can Cause Process to Loop Indefinitely ] + | style="font-weight: bold;" |  [https://s3.amazonaws.com/eswenson-multics/public/mcrs/MCR10138.pdf Fix bug in ipc $block That Can Cause Process to Loop Indefinitely ]   | style="text-align: center;" | Reopened, prev install MR12.9-1001   | style="text-align: center;" | Reopened, prev install MR12.9-1001 − | style="text-align: center;" | 2025-02-02 + | style="text-align: center;" | 2025-02-10   |-   |-   | style="text-align: center;" | MCR10137   | style="text-align: center;" | MCR10137 [Less]

‎Registering Your Multics System ← Older revision Revision as of 16:46, 30 March 2025 Line 240: Line 240:   === Registering Your Multics System ===   === Registering Your Multics System ===     − To ... [More] register your Multics system, you may visit [https://swenson.org/multics/Register Register Your Multics System].  Doing so allows others to see that you have installed Multics and advertises as little or as much information about your system as you wish.  Doing so also gives you a Multics serial number.  You can update the serial.txt file (or create one if none exists) in your Multics host directory so that it contains the Multics serial number you are assigned during registration.  While this is an optional step, real Multics hardware systems had serial numbers, and the "rsw" machine instruction returns this serial as the "processor ID".  So you, too, can influence the "rsw" instruction by returning your very own assigned Multics hardware serial number. + To register your Multics system, you may visit [https://swenson.org/multics/reg/ Register Your Multics System].  Doing so allows others to see that you have installed Multics and advertises as little or as much information about your system as you wish.  Doing so also gives you a Multics serial number.  You can update the serial.txt file (or create one if none exists) in your Multics host directory so that it contains the Multics serial number you are assigned during registration.  While this is an optional step, real Multics hardware systems had serial numbers, and the "rsw" machine instruction returns this serial as the "processor ID".  So you, too, can influence the "rsw" instruction by returning your very own assigned Multics hardware serial number.       === Getting Help ===   === Getting Help === [Less]

‎Getting an MCR Number ← Older revision Revision as of 17:05, 30 March 2025 Line 196: Line 196:   ====Getting an MCR Number====   ====Getting an MCR Number====     − MCR numbers are reserved/registered ... [More] using a Multics forum entry. The ''MCRs'' forum is maintained on Eric Swenson's ''Gold Hill Multics (GHM)'' Multics site. Send mail to [mailTo:[email protected] Eric Swenson] to ask for a user registration on this system. + MCR numbers are reserved/registered using a web service located at https://swenson.org/multics/mcrs/. This web service is maintained vy Eric Swenson. In order to register an MCR, you must have an account on this web service. Send email to [mailTo:[email protected] Eric Swenson] to ask for an account.       + You can read the instructions on the main page of this web site (unless you already know how), and select the "Allocate New MCR" menu item to allocate a new MCR.  Provide a title and description of the change.  You do not need to specify one or more ticket numbers in the description, since once you press the Allocate button, you will be presented with another form that allows editing of the information you submitted. That form will also show you your newly allocated MCR number.       + On the MCR Edit form, you can press the "Add ticket" button to add a ticket (either a Multics Trac ticket or a DPS8M Gitlab ticket). When adding a ticket, you can specify either the ticket URL or simply the ticket number. If you choose the ticket number option, be sure to specify which type (Multics or DPS8M), and the URL will automatically be generated. The Multics Ticket number should have been obtained as the first step in Changing Multics: the step called [[#File_a_Multics_Bug|File a Multics Bug]].     − Login to the GHM Multics System. + You can also edit various fields, and provide the URL to your MCR PDF, if it has been hosted somewhere. You will not be able to add installation IDs or hardcore designators to your MCR -- this is done by the person who will eventually install your MCR-approved code on the Gold Hill Multics (GHM) system.     − The script below shows entering the MCRs forum meeting to display the last transaction in that meeting.  Each transaction is an MCR reservation.  Text in the Subject line of the last transaction contains the most recently reserved MCR number. In the example below, the most recent MCR number is: MCR10082 + If you make any changes to the MCR fields, be sure to click the Update button to save those changes.     − forum MCRs + Once you have an MCR number allocated, open your downloaded MCR Template to begin a new MCR. − MCRs meeting:  0 new, 102 last. + −   + − forum:  pr last + −   + − [0102] (3 lines) GDixon.User 07/06/20  0759.8 pdt Mon MCRs + − Subject:  MCR10082 + − An enhancement to implement Multics Ticket #211. + −   + − Add a get_page_length_ function to return the current page length for a + − given I/O stream/switch.  This follows the precedent set by the existing + − get_line_length_ function.  + − ---[0102]--- + − + −   + −   + − Add one to that number, giving the next number: MCR10083.  Add a new transaction with the incremented MCR number as the transaction's Subject field.  Text of the transaction begins with a 1-line reference to the Multics Ticket number, followed by a 1-line description of the proposed change.  The Multics Ticket number should have been obtained as the first step in Changing Multics: the step called [[#File_a_Multics_Bug|File a Multics Bug]].  If that step was skipped, add the Ticket now before entering the forum transaction. + −   + − Note that forum transactions cannot be edited after they are entered.  They can only be deleted, and re-entered with corrected text. + −   + − forum:  talk -subject MCR10083 + − Transaction: + − An enhancement to implement Multics Ticket #214. + −   + − Add a translator_temp_ entry point:  empty_all_segments which frees up + − storage allocated previously, but reuses the temp segments to begin a + − new pool for quick allocations. + − . + − Transaction [0103] entered in >site>forum_dir>MCRs meeting. + −   + − forum:  q + − + −   + − Entering that transaction assigns the incremented MCR number to your change. + −   + −   + −   + − Open your downloaded MCR Template to begin a new MCR. +       Place the MCR number (obtained above) in the new MCR document:   Place the MCR number (obtained above) in the new MCR document: [Less]

‎Getting an MCR Number ← Older revision Revision as of 18:04, 30 March 2025 Line 196: Line 196:   ====Getting an MCR Number====   ====Getting an MCR Number====     − MCR numbers are reserved/registered ... [More] using a web service located at https://swenson.org/multics/mcrs/. This web service is maintained vy Eric Swenson. In order to register an MCR, you must have an account on this web service. Send email to [mailTo:[email protected] Eric Swenson] to ask for an account. + MCR numbers are reserved/registered using a web service located at https://swenson.org/multics/mcrs/. This web service is maintained by Eric Swenson. In order to register an MCR, you must have an account on this web service. Send email to [mailTo:[email protected] Eric Swenson] to ask for an account.       You can read the instructions on the main page of this web site (unless you already know how), and select the "Allocate New MCR" menu item to allocate a new MCR.  Provide a title and description of the change.  You do not need to specify one or more ticket numbers in the description, since once you press the Allocate button, you will be presented with another form that allows editing of the information you submitted. That form will also show you your newly allocated MCR number.   You can read the instructions on the main page of this web site (unless you already know how), and select the "Allocate New MCR" menu item to allocate a new MCR.  Provide a title and description of the change.  You do not need to specify one or more ticket numbers in the description, since once you press the Allocate button, you will be presented with another form that allows editing of the information you submitted. That form will also show you your newly allocated MCR number. [Less]

Jeffrey H. Johnson (141fdcce) at 31 Mar 11:56 Include src/perf_test in source kit; used by PGO

Update test.

Jeffrey H. Johnson (baba27b0) at 31 Mar 16:55 Web: Update GPG public keyring ... and 1 more commit