Re: Bug in Supnik's emulator? - TUHS

25 Mar 1998

On Mar 25, 15:54, Greg Lehey wrote:
...
  Subject: Re: Bug in Supnik's emulator?
 On Tue, 24 March 1998 at 23:48:33 -0400, Ed G. wrote:
 > I don't know whether this is a bug in the factor (1) program (which
 > seems unlikely) or the emulator.  Can someone try factoring numbers on
 > a real pdp-11 and tell me what happens?
 >
 > On the emulator when I type in a number, factor prints out the
 > prime factors, followed by an infinite series of 17s. 
...
  I would be very surprised if this was a bug in the
emulator.
 In any case, I tried it on the begemot emulator, running 2.11BSD:

 [55] root--> /usr/games/factor 6
         2
         3
 [56] root--> 
On my PDP-11/23 running 7th Edition, factor works fine:

$ factor 6

     2
     3
$

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York

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