spice2g6 on Sequent Balance or Symmetry, bugs in Berkeley Pascal

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1 total messages Started by Van Rauch Mon, 08 Aug 1988 22:36

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Author: Van Rauch
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 1988 22:36

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Has anyone ported spice2g6 to Balance or Symmetry FORTRAN V3.2?

Upon making the obvious porting considerations and running it, 
spice gives:

*ERROR*: SYSTEM ERROR, ADDRESS 1677..... IS NOT ON 4 BYTE BOUNDARY

One would think that their FORTRAN compiler would know how to
align data structures, no? 

I'm really surprised that more people aren't screaming about 
lack of runnable third party software for this system.  Is it that
Sequents' compilers are catching f77 inconsistencies or that
Sequent FORTRAN is too radically different?

Anxious to get any feedback on this.

Also incase you're interested...

the function random in Sequents port of /usr/ucb/pc does not produce 
a uniform distribution of random numbers. Running a chi-square probability
test on 52000 tries consistently gives 0.0 probability that
the distribution is truly random. The source for random is identical 
to BSD, save for comments, yet their implementation/assembler/gremlins
don't let this thing work true to form.

If anyone wants the code to verify this, please let me know. 

I have reported this to Sequent, (mailbugged it numerous times) and
have never received a response.

(They have fixed bugs with even numbered case labels and intersection
 of SETS in pc.)

If there are any spice types out there, I'd appreciate any feedback.

	Van Rauch
	Staff Consultant
	University of NM CIRT

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