Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 13:12:01 GMT
From: pete@dunnington.u-net.com (Pete Turnbull)
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In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
        "Re: Bug in Supnik's emulator?" (Mar 25, 15:54)
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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