HI Mark,
On Saturday, September 20, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Mark Wickens wrote:
A quick configuration question if I could be so bold. Ever since I can
remember my startup script for the VAX 3900 has halted with an error:
msw@hpm:/usr/local/vax/bin$ sudo ./vax
VAX simulator V3.9-0
NVR: buffering
Thanks for the help Mark.
I compiled up the latest code as suggested and removed the ROM line. I
wouldn't have thought of doing that myself - I assumed it was needed.
It's now booting through the dead sergeant prompt.
Now I just need to get the networking sorted out!
BTW I am running this
If I remember correctly, simh started out with the ka655 version, which is the
code from an actual machine. Then thr rmulatoe was modifies to handle more
memoet than a real machine rver had, and the ka655x version was cewares0d to
deal with the extra eam.
If you reduce the nenory configured,
I added the extended memory code to the ka655.bin ROM image. Extended memory,
here is support for greater than the 64MB that the hardware and the original
ka655.bin supported. The original ka655.bin image was slightly patched from the
original to work better in the simulator (mostly disabling
