Fascinating, as Mr. Spock would say. ;-)
I’m not sure where my copy is now, but 101 Basic Computer Games really
jump-started my programming, and in my opinion the Star Trek game was the best
game in the book. I ended up adapting it to run on my [okay, my Dad’s LOL]
TRS-80 (Model 1, Level II,
FWIW,
I've been running simh for ages and periodically I forget to renew my hobbyist
licenses before they expire. It happened again just last week. I usually go
through the following song and dance routine in this scenario:
1. Get new hobbyist licenses in attached .COM file
2. Transfer from
>Yes. Although there are some slight differences between ethernet and CI,
>but from a practical point of view, for cluster networking, ethernet
>works just as well.
"Practical" has very little to do with my interest in this subject, LOL, but I
have
a definite fondness for the old "classic"
Sigh. No matter how many times I re-read before sending, it doesn't matter.
Let me expand on this:
>1. in /etc/rc.local, I have this snippet to make sure the network tap device
>I
>need is ready to go:
>
>if ! ip link show tap0 ; then
> tunctl -t tap0
> ifconfig tap0 up
> brctl addif br0
I agree with everything Mark said. (Particularly installing libpcap-dev...)
I'm running a simh VAX 8650 on Debian stretch (although nothing has changed
appreciably of late except maybe systemd); here are some additional
operational notes that you might or might not find useful -- these are
I was fortunate to have gotten "on the inside" quite early in my career, and
reading this thread really has brought back a wave of nostalgia for the
sights, sounds, and feel of old machine rooms.
And that's scratching the surface (pardon the pun). I managed a lonely trio of
Xerox 8010 servers
I don't know if this comment represents scope creep or not, but I recently
browsed the
VAX MP Technical Overview:
http://www.oboguev.net/vax_mp/VAX%20MP%20Technical%20Overview.pdf
and it has an eye-opening dissection of the pitfalls associated with threaded
emulation
when the memory
I've never seen an ALTAIR (beyond the Popular Science cover!) or used the
emulated simh version, but I was reading code for edification and came across
this statement in altair_cpu.c:
3. Non-existent memory. On the 8080, reads to non-existent memory
return 0377, and writes are
It's Friday afternoon, so it seems like a perfect chance to ask a weird
question that's been bobbing around in the back of my mind:
Which model of SIMH VAX is the fastest? (or most efficient, if there's a
difference)
I ask because I am a pure hobbyist looking to get the most mileage out of the
