Re: DEC Pro operating systems and MFM emulator

2021-01-24 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jan 24, 2021, at 11:54 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk > wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 9:53 AM Cameron Kaiser via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > 2. Venix: panic at boot, "Bad access number". That doesn't mean >> anything > to me. I wonder if the issue is that Ven

Re: DEC Pro operating systems and MFM emulator

2021-01-24 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> The Venix/Pro that's in the archives works on all Pros (1.0) but 2.0 > requires the 380. I should have said what it was running. It is indeed 2.0. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...

Re: DEC Pro operating systems and MFM emulator

2021-01-24 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 9:53 AM Cameron Kaiser via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > 2. Venix: panic at boot, "Bad access number". That doesn't mean > anything > > > > to me. I wonder if the issue is that Venix doesn't support the 380. > [...] > > > Venix runs fine on my 380. In fac

Re: DEC Pro operating systems and MFM emulator

2021-01-24 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > > 2. Venix: panic at boot, "Bad access number". That doesn't mean anything > > > to me. I wonder if the issue is that Venix doesn't support the 380. [...] > > Venix runs fine on my 380. In fact, it's the only OS installed on it. It has > > the stock hard disk, though I'd like to convert to so

Re: DEC Pro operating systems and MFM emulator

2021-01-24 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 1/24/21 11:40 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: Listening to these conversations make me really wish I had not given my 2 PRO's away. They are neat, but they are so god-damned slow. Compiles on the pro/380 with an RD52 are 1/4th the speed of an 11/83 with a 330mb ESDI disk. It's to the poin

RE: DEC Pro operating systems and MFM emulator

2021-01-24 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Chris Zach via > cctalk > Sent: 24 January 2021 16:40 > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: DEC Pro operating systems and MFM emulator > > > Listening to these conversations make me really wish I had not gi

Re: DEC Pro operating systems and MFM emulator

2021-01-24 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Listening to these conversations make me really wish I had not given my 2 PRO's away. They are neat, but they are so god-damned slow. Compiles on the pro/380 with an RD52 are 1/4th the speed of an 11/83 with a 330mb ESDI disk. It's to the point where I compile on the 83, then upload the result

Re: DEC Pro operating systems and MFM emulator

2021-01-24 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 1/24/21 10:38 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: On Jan 23, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: 2. Venix: panic at boot, "Bad access number". That doesn't mean anything to me. I wonder if the issue is that Venix doesn't support the 380. The Venix image is special. Venix doesn't su

Re: DEC Pro operating systems and MFM emulator

2021-01-24 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jan 23, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > 2. Venix: panic at boot, "Bad access number". That doesn't mean anything to me. I wonder if the issue is that Venix doesn't support the 380. >>> >>> The Venix image is special. Venix doesn't support more than 16 sectors >>> pe

Re: DEC Pro operating systems and MFM emulator

2021-01-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > > 2. Venix: panic at boot, "Bad access number". That doesn't mean anything > > > to me. I wonder if the issue is that Venix doesn't support the 380. > > > > The Venix image is special. Venix doesn't support more than 16 sectors > > per track. You may need to put it on a disk whose geometry i

Re: DEC Pro operating systems and MFM emulator

2021-01-23 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jan 23, 2021, at 1:54 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 11:47 AM Paul Koning via cctalk > wrote: > The question was asked (I misplaced the note) if the OS images that are on > the Xhomer website work with David Gesswein's MFM emulator on real hardware. > > You can

Re: DEC Pro operating systems and MFM emulator

2021-01-23 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 11:47 AM Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > The question was asked (I misplaced the note) if the OS images that are on > the Xhomer website work with David Gesswein's MFM emulator on real hardware. > > You can turn these into emulator data files, provided you have the latest >

DEC Pro operating systems and MFM emulator

2021-01-23 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
The question was asked (I misplaced the note) if the OS images that are on the Xhomer website work with David Gesswein's MFM emulator on real hardware. You can turn these into emulator data files, provided you have the latest ext2emu tool that's part of David's software (as of 1/19/2021). The f