The 11/70 does not execute an MMU trap and doesn't set A or W bits in PDR
when an MMU register is accessed, thus MMR0
to MMR3
and any of the
PDR
and PAR
registers.
This causes ekbee1
tests 61 and 63 to fail.
The w11 doesn't implement this trap suppression (neither does SimH or E11).
Since MMU traps are a 11/70,11/45 only feature no OS uses them. Given that, this is considered an acceptable deviation from 11/70 behavior.
Note: the decision whether to request a trap or to update the A and W bits
must be done in the clock cycle in which the MMU translates the virtual
address into a physical address. The w11 determines only in the following
clock cycle whether the physical address is a UNIBUS address and starts an
ibus
transaction, and the UNIBUS address decoder decision is available in
the respective IBSEL
registers in the next following cycle. With this
structure, it is not possible to use the available UNIBUS address decoding
information during the MMU decision whether to request a trap or not.
Implementing the 11/70 behavior would require a separate MMU register
detection, which would increase the logic depth at a point that is already
quite long.