Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA20456 for pups-liszt; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:49:02 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au: major set sender to owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au using -f Received: from renoir.op.net (root@renoir.op.net [209.152.193.4]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA20451 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:48:56 +1100 (EST) Received: from goppelt.op.net (d-phlarc2-01.ppp.op.net [209.152.199.97]) by renoir.op.net (o1/$Revision: 1.15 $) with SMTP id XAA23272 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 23:48:46 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199803250448.XAA23272@renoir.op.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Ed G." To: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 23:48:33 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Bug in Supnik's emulator? Reply-to: edgee@cyberpass.net X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.54) Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Precedence: bulk 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 might add that I had bc running on the emulator calculate pi to 30 places and the results were identical with gnu bc on my linux box, right down to the last digit. Very impressive. Ed