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Page 1: ...Xerox Real Time Batch Monitor RBM Xerox 530 and Sigma 2 3 Computers System Management Reference Manual 903036C...

Page 2: ...Boulevard EI Segundo California 90245 213679 4511 Xerox Real Time Batch Monitor RBM Xerox Corporation 1973 1975 Xerox 530 and Sigma 2 3 Computers System Management Reference Manual 903036C January 19...

Page 3: ...FORTRAN IV LN Reference Manual Xerox Basic FORTRAN OPS Reference Manual Xerox Basic FORTRAN IV OPS Reference Manual Xerox FORTRAN Library Technical Manual Xerox ANS FORTRAN IV LN Reference Manual Xero...

Page 4: ...to the Operator 37 Removable Disk Packs and Cartridges 6 SYSlOAD Phase Operations 38 Area Definition and Pack Cartridge ALL Option 39 Initialization 6 RBM Symbol Map 40 Pack Cartridge Mounting 6 UPD U...

Page 5: ...Standard SIU Handlers 17 INDEX 7 Background Processor and Subsystem Requirements 18 8 Disk Data Organization 18 FIGURES 9 System Disk Storage Summary 19 10 Spooling Volume Requirements 20 1 RBM Lowes...

Page 6: ...ither the letter A or the value of id must be entered The horizontal ellipsis indicates that a previous bracketed element may be re peated or that elements have been omitted nameG name means that one...

Page 7: ...es directions for adding desired processors Iibraries resident foreground programs etc to the newly generated monitor so as to ach ieve a fu lIy op erationa I RBM system Chapter 6 gives system mainten...

Page 8: ...n fact the Remote Assistance system specialist expects to analyze such displays at his console as one of his most valuable re mote problem solving tools 2 Avai labi Iity Features DEVICE ISOlATION Nonc...

Page 9: ...Control r Remote KSR 33 Assistance Interface the I O interrupt task must contend only with the RBM maximum inhibit of 100 ec and possible interference among themse Ives The standard Xerox 530 is equi...

Page 10: ...Clocks Priority Levels I O 30 standard and 2 standard 2 standard optional combined 100 all optional 4 optional 100 optiona I 4151 8K Memory 1 r o 7251 2 3 mb 7251 2 3 mb Priority Levels 1 02 4 standa...

Page 11: ...RBM processors are designed to uti lize memory efficiently and will take advantage of any excess space that may be avai lable The performance of SORT for examp Ie can be substantially enhanced by addi...

Page 12: ...r wants to have al I the system processors and a com plete system library stored on the disk and wants to al locate enough Background Temp area to assemble an average 5000 line source program approxim...

Page 13: ...megabytes for system storage including standard processors 2 RBMdoes not manage bandwidth control thus the installation must be properly configured to avoid data overruns When two figures are shown th...

Page 14: ...o key ins pending Failure to do so will result in a SYSERR with code SP when on attempt is mode by RBM to access an overlay Fore ground tasks that access files on the fixed portion of a drive may also...

Page 15: ...and 5K if only local local operation is desired see Chapter 3 Table 10 for spooling requ rements BASIC SPOOLING SYSTEM OPTIONAL One interrupt level is required for each active copy of BSS The basic s...

Page 16: ...4 for example the resident foreground might expand into the unused Public Library area RESIDENT RBM MODULES RBM consists of both resident and nonresident modules Resident modules consist of functions...

Page 17: ...sk 1 Real time task 2 temp stack Task Control Block 2 Real time task 2 Special end action I o routine Foreground program A COMMON area Real time task n temp stack Task Control Block n Rea I time task...

Page 18: ...ibrary and monitor service routine use User program and subprograms including any Iibrary routines not in the Publ ic Li brary Unused space Disk I O blocking buffers From 1 to 16 buffers si ze of buff...

Page 19: ...LOCATION The Fi Ie Control Table FCT is indexed by device file num ber and contains information about all devi ce fi les in the system The total size of the File Control Table is deter mined and alloc...

Page 20: ...KP 4191 I 4193 38 23 7012 32 16 8091 Paper Tape PT 7020 43 16 7060 Card Reader CR 7120 7121 41 12 7122 7140 Card Punch CP 7160 164 135 7165 41 12 Magnetic Tape MT 3325 7323 3335 7332 155 13 7315 7333...

Page 21: ...the plotter The trigger is accomp Iished vi a a public library subroutine A set of unsoli cited operator key ins permit the operator to supervise the plotting operation The SYSGEN considerations for...

Page 22: ...7122 and 7140 CR and 7tk MT post I O BCD conversion 36 250 Models 7120 7121 7122 7140 7362 and 7372 CP and 7tk MT pre I O and post I O 37 160 BCD conversion Models 7165 7362 and 7372 CP pre 1 a and p...

Page 23: ...n control or communicate with a large variety of special devices theough Xerox System Interface Units SIUs SIUs and their usage are described in the publication IIXerox System Interface Units II 64 28...

Page 24: ...ieved by explicit area specifications by default allocations or by a combination of the two Basically disk allocation is performed by specifying a disk device and optionally fol lowing it by a set of...

Page 25: ...40 bytes Sector size Random 90 64 26 4 1 8 3 4 2 3 SL MODIR 1440 bytes Sector size Random 6 4 2 EBCDIC 1440 bytes Sector size Random 6 4 2 6 3 3 2 6 4 10 1 MDFRF 1080 bytes Sector size Random 5 3 2 MO...

Page 26: ...rehand by the II NO EXTRA DICT ENTRIES parameter value This value re serves a user chosen number of entries from 0 to 40 that is additional to the five entries automatically reserved nominally for the...

Page 27: ...device with the possible exception of the BT area will always start on a track boundary If default allocation is accepted for CP and BT BT will begin at the next available sector following the CP are...

Page 28: ...ault BT All allocation effectively in hibits any further nondefault area specifications for that device including SK specifications General Rule For Ordering of Areas There is no advantage in any part...

Page 29: ...Only files with NO write protection may be added deleted etc without restriction Backg round fi Ies and unprotected fi les i e NO write protection may be added deleted etc without restriction Protecti...

Page 30: ...n Completes the RBM over ay loading control table Completes the resident monitor core image and loads it onto the system disk Completes the system disk insofar as the Monitor is concerned by adding su...

Page 31: ...ese first three fi les contain respectively the SYSGE N program and its bootstrap the complete set of resident RBM modules and the complete set of non resident RBM modules or overlays certain of which...

Page 32: ...L 1BLOAD I ss 0 ss 14 15 16 17 18 19 r ___ EXPAND COMPRESS REPLACE INDUMP ELLA and EXERCISE processor GRAPH PLOTTER I support I EXPAND COMPRESS REPLACE ELLA LLA module module module modules JCL and JC...

Page 33: ...ut All inputs via the keyboard printer or paper tape reader must be terminated with a NEW LINE character Commas are used to separate fields except as specifically indicated in Table 12 When entering i...

Page 34: ...put SYSGEN assumes there is no Public Library Reflects the maximum queue size for non resident foreground programs r r NO EXTRA DICT ENTRIES Number n 40 DISK ALLOCAnON xxxx dn i S For example 7242 E1...

Page 35: ...ther an S must be spec Hied or the SP area must be defined yy is an area mnemonic usually from the following SP SD SL BT CP FP BP UP UL UD Xn aa where n is a decimal digit and a is any letter except X...

Page 36: ...should a value of zero be specified for n which wi prevent RBM IS use of the c lock and recover the 100 cells of resident Monitor space The value n represents the reciprocal of the fre quency of the C...

Page 37: ...s feature includes the Clockl feature plus background job accounting elapsed time re cording and background time limitation The power off task preserves the volatile en vironment in the event of a sys...

Page 38: ...has been included as an optional feature specifies the lOP for a multi unit controller I specifies th IIOP or IOP1 E specifies the EIO tor JQP2 I is assumed by de fault This s ication will be ignored...

Page 39: ...round or foreground use B specifies background F foreground SYSGEN always allocates two to six fore ground RAD disk DFNs for use by th Monitor in addition to the number of RAD disk fore ground OFNs sp...

Page 40: ...rd punch 100 cpm BCD conversion Background disk files see note 1 line printer 225 Ipm Card reader 200 cpm 9 track magnetic tape for M IOEX use only Debug input see note 2 Debug output see note 2 Foreg...

Page 41: ...signed to disk fj les at SYSGEN time The following operotional labels are defined by RBMi thus they may not be specified Label Use GO LI LS RS OV PI S2 XO X6 Normally assigned to the RBMGO file for a...

Page 42: ...Library this typeout will not occur Otherwise the input should reflect the first word address FWA of the Public Library which may be equal to RBM LWA An input of zero is illegal This value is stored i...

Page 43: ...d printer use must be as indicated instead of the model number of the entire unit For example use model number 7012 for the keyboard printer and model 7020 for the paper tape reader punch where the mo...

Page 44: ...l task interrupt to another level Correct the problem with the input device and retype last input Since this alarm is output only after the END poram eter is input i e after the disk allocation has be...

Page 45: ...pletely defined A check is then made to determine if the checkpoint area allocation is large enough to contain the entire background If it is not the following message is output CP AREA TOO SMAll The...

Page 46: ...is the hexadecimal memory address defined by the symbol or the address at which it is refer enced if it is not defined If a symbol appearing on the map is undefined which may be caused by an unsatisf...

Page 47: ...nd no sys tem processors would have to be reloaded The appropriate routines must be reloaded in these areas All system processor and back ground user programs must be reloaded See Chapter 5 Relocated...

Page 48: ...itches Reset the write protect switches for the ap has been set on the disk for an area propriate area that phase 2 is attempti ng to modify EOT ON SP AREA An end of tape status has been re A new SYSG...

Page 49: ...release materials is shown in the printed description 11 This position is automatically attained at the conclusion of the SYSGEN process or can be achieved by skipping three files on the system re le...

Page 50: ...nted Commun ications Handler Peripheral exerciser 44 Loading RBM Maintenance Utility Processors OTHER RIM PROCESSORS The fol lowing additional processors foreground program in the case of RCOC are ava...

Page 51: ...nit 4 One card reader SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS The following RBM software is required 1 The RBM subsystems Overlay Loader RAD Editor and Uti Iity 2 Extended SYMBOL processor 3 EXPAND processor 4 REPLACE...

Page 52: ...5 For a nonresident module the REPLACE processor may be used to replace the module with the binary output For example continuing the previous example OLOAD O F ROOT 0 overlay bias GO 1 I END REPLACE...

Page 53: ...eck is not made for JCP xxxx will give the proper bias NO ID FOUND ON REPLACE CALL The REPLACE IDxx call is not in correct format thus the ID field cannot be located ERROR CO DE xx 0 N HEADER READ Err...

Page 54: ...om the background CC operational label and write records on the background DO operational label The records read in are either bias or patch records Bias records have the form 1 commenn where bbbb is...

Page 55: ...ary deck 2 Place the following cards in the reader preceding the JOBC card JOB PAUSE KEYIN SY S 3 Insert the MD cards following the SEG card for the segment being patched 4 Run the job through the I E...

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Page 57: ...18 disk data organization 18 disk packs 6 disk storage alloc9tion guidel ines 18 E ELLA 44 error analysis 2 error log 2 30 EXERCISE 44 EXPAND 44 expl icit area allocation 20 extended arithmetic optio...

Page 58: ...s 47 REPLACE operator messages 47 resident foreground 5 10 resident I O tables and routines 13 resident RBM modules 10 RPG 44 s satellite processor 9 saving the new system 43 SD area 15 secondary stor...

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