Talk:On-line Debugging Tool

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Propaniac (talk) 17:28, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Octal Debugging Technique → On-line Debugging Tool &mdash; On-line Debugging Tool is the name used for this tool in the standard Digital documentation. If anybody has any evidence that Octal Debugging Technique was used by Digital as a meaning for the mnemonic I am happy to leave the page in place and add a redirect.FrankFlanagan (talk) 17:32, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
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Having just checked the PDP-11 handbook, I find that it's actually "On-line Debugging Technique", not either of the options discussed above. Iamleeg (talk) 19:05, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

The RSX Debugging Reference Manual calls it "On-Line Debugging Tool". Sillbit (talk) 21:18, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

PDP-11 explanation
The article tries to explain the PDP-11 as such, and do a bad job of it. The PDP-11 do have virtual memory, and ODT is actually accessing the memory of the process on systems where you have multiple processes and memory protection. It does not access physical memory. The APRs are used by the MMU to map the memory, and is totally invisible to any user of ODT on such systems. Any address and memory content referred to are for virtual addresses in the virtual memory of the process ODT is being used on. Any other process is totally unaffected by, and invisible to the user working in ODT. Sillbit (talk) 21:22, 6 April 2023 (UTC)