Bug in Supnik's emulator?

[Greg Lehey]

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.  So, for
> example
>
> factor 6
> 2
> 3
> 17
> 17
> ....

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--> 

Greg

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