Solving the halting problem with my PDP-11/44!

In the previous episode, we got the 11/44 up and running, and it looked like it was trying to go, but we kept running into a problem: we couldn’t halt the CPU. Which seems like a really weird thing to want to try to do, but PDP gonna PDP. At any rate, we need to get the CPU to halt so we can start trying to run stuff on it, as counterintuitive as that sounds. So, today, that’s what we’re going to tackle!

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Intro Music adapted from:
Artist: The Runaway Five
Title: The Shinra Shuffle
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Chapters
0:00 Solving the unsolvable
1:16 Solving the real halting problem
3:51 Taking care of the basics first
6:26 A little board swap and some progress!
8:40 Getting some help from the past
11:25 An introduction to PDP11GUI
14:22 Loading something from a simulated paper tape
18:02 The two avenues of media
21:28 Slow motion noms!