I am pleased to announce the 12th release of the HP 3000 simulator, 
available from the HP simulators Web site:

  http://simh.trailing-edge.com/hp/

This release adds the HP 30341A HP-IB Interface Module (a.k.a., 
"Starfish"), allowing connection of one to eight HP 7911, 7912, 7933, or 7935
CS/80 disc drives to the Series III system.  Support extends to configuring a
CS/80 disc as the system cold-load device.  Full details are given in the
release notes that accompany the source and binary distributions.

The ready-to-run MPE V/R kit was also updated to provide command files that
will generate and load systems based on CS/80 drives in addition to the
existing MAC drive support.

While HP officially only supported the connection of a single drive, the
simulator supports the creation of a user-specified number of instances of the
General I/O Channel (GIC) and set of eight CS/80 devices, potentially
permitting multiple gigabytes of disc storage.

With the new simulations of the GIC, Channel Program Processor, and HP-IB I/O
instruction set, the path toward a simulation of a Series 4x or 5x system
capable of running MPE V/E is significantly advanced.  With luck, this
capability will be in the next simulator release.

                                          -- Dave

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