Re: [Simh] A couple of newbie SimH questions

2017-03-06 Thread Warren Toomey
> On Monday, March 6, 2017 at 2:58 AM, Warren Toomey wrote: > > I've built 4.2BSD and 4.3BSD images as per the instructions here: > > http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_4.2_BSD_on_SIMH > > http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_4.3_BSD_on_SIMH > > I've tried all of the SET CPU IDLE values and I can't f

Re: [Simh] CI750 tech docs and VAX firmware

2017-03-06 Thread Tim Stark
Yeah. I know that but I like to emulate HSC and HSJ servers for SIMH and other emulators via TCP links. It uses SCS or SCA packets that embeds MSCP/TMSCP packets. Tim -Original Message- From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Phil Budne Sent: Monday, March 6,

Re: [Simh] CI750 tech docs and VAX firmware

2017-03-06 Thread Phil Budne
I know I'm being a spoil-sport, and I don't deny it would be fun to create a "star coupler" network server, but. Wouldn't it be possible (if less fun) to have the simulator interpret the contents of the CI packets (which might just contain MSCP)? Isn't clustering over Ethernet available under

Re: [Simh] CI750 tech docs and VAX firmware

2017-03-06 Thread Tim Stark
Hmm, interesting. K.scsi is not mentioned in my HSC50/70 docs. Does anyone have any docs contains K.scsi tech info? Thanks again, Tim -Original Message- From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist Sent: Monday, March 6, 2017 6:47 PM To: simh@trailin

Re: [Simh] CI750 tech docs and VAX firmware

2017-03-06 Thread Tim Stark
Ok, I now got it. I downloaded and reviewed scanned docs that Tim Litt pointed to. Yes, HSC70 is upgradable to HSC90. I will start with HSC70/90 emulation development then HSC50 and others... Also I learned that CI became DSSI (SCSI version of CI) later. They provides SHAC tech docs for VAX

Re: [Simh] CI750 tech docs and VAX firmware

2017-03-06 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2017-03-06 15:03, Timothe Litt wrote: There were also HSC40 & hsc60. Right. Pretty similar to all the others. The differences (as far as I can remember) were mostly on the number of SDI/STI ports available, and the amount of cache in the machine. The differences in the hsc family member

Re: [Simh] CI750 tech docs and VAX firmware

2017-03-06 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2017-03-06 14:39, Tim Stark wrote: I reviewed HSC50/70 tech docs. Yeah. They are PDP-11 machines. HSC50 uses TU58 and is F11 processor. HSC70 uses floppy drive and is J11 processor. They uses SDI and STI devices through two Qbus registers with MSCP/TMSCP packets. I am interested to get

Re: [Simh] A couple of newbie SimH questions

2017-03-06 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Monday, March 6, 2017 at 2:58 AM, Warren Toomey wrote: > Hi all, as part of the preparation for the Unix 50th anniversary in 2019, I'm > starting to get some Unix images up and running on SimH. What I want to get > done is to recreate some of the early networking, in particular uucp and > Usenet

Re: [Simh] CI750 tech docs and VAX firmware

2017-03-06 Thread Timothe Litt
There were also HSC40 & hsc60. The differences in the hsc family members were the processor, cache, load device, number of channels, and maximum number of ports. Some models were field-upgradable. Also, later models supported (reluctantly) the K.scsi module, which allowed the HSC to serve SCSI

Re: [Simh] CI750 tech docs and VAX firmware

2017-03-06 Thread Tim Stark
I reviewed HSC50/70 tech docs. Yeah. They are PDP-11 machines. HSC50 uses TU58 and is F11 processor. HSC70 uses floppy drive and is J11 processor. They uses SDI and STI devices through two Qbus registers with MSCP/TMSCP packets. I am interested to get copies of floppy and tape images for lo

Re: [Simh] A couple of newbie SimH questions

2017-03-06 Thread Jacob Goense
On 2017-03-06 11:58, Warren Toomey wrote: I've tried all of the SET CPU IDLE values and I can't find a value that lowers the CPU usage below 100%. Is there a compile flag that I need to set? The host system is Ubuntu 15.10 and Linux 4.2.0-42-generic. I guess idle pattern detection missing or

Re: [Simh] CI750 tech docs and VAX firmware

2017-03-06 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2017-03-06 kl. 11:27, skrev Johnny Billquist: On 2017-03-06 09:51, Anders Magnusson wrote: Den 2017-03-05 kl. 14:06, skrev Tim Stark: Folks, I discovered CI750 tech docs when I searched for some CPU processors for VAX emulation. I downloaded and reviewed it. CI emulation can be impleme

Re: [Simh] CI750 tech docs and VAX firmware

2017-03-06 Thread Tim Stark
Folks, I googled and found some ROM dumps. I found out that SIMH repo already have original firmware (KA620, KA630, and KA655). It do not have original KA610 fw file yet. Also, I found KA640 and KA650 fw files and downloaded both. I can't find KA660 to KA690 yet (for VAX 4000 series). I have

[Simh] A couple of newbie SimH questions

2017-03-06 Thread Warren Toomey
Hi all, as part of the preparation for the Unix 50th anniversary in 2019, I'm starting to get some Unix images up and running on SimH. What I want to get done is to recreate some of the early networking, in particular uucp and Usenet on top of it (with C-News). I've built 4.2BSD and 4.3BSD images

Re: [Simh] CI750 tech docs and VAX firmware

2017-03-06 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2017-03-06 09:51, Anders Magnusson wrote: Den 2017-03-05 kl. 14:06, skrev Tim Stark: Folks, I discovered CI750 tech docs when I searched for some CPU processors for VAX emulation. I downloaded and reviewed it. CI emulation can be implemented for emulator to link to other VAX/Alpha emulat

Re: [Simh] CI750 tech docs and VAX firmware

2017-03-06 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2017-03-05 kl. 14:06, skrev Tim Stark: Folks, I discovered CI750 tech docs when I searched for some CPU processors for VAX emulation. I downloaded and reviewed it. CI emulation can be implemented for emulator to link to other VAX/Alpha emulators as VMScluster. Does anyone find CI780 emu

Re: [Simh] CI750 tech docs and VAX firmware

2017-03-06 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Sunday, March 5, 2017 at 5:07 AM, Tim Stark wrote: > I discovered CI750 tech docs when I searched for some CPU processors > for VAX emulation. I downloaded and reviewed it.  CI emulation can > be implemented for emulator to link to other VAX/Alpha emulators > as VMScluster. Does anyone find C