Re: [Simh] How to access RT11/FIles11 floppy images on Windows?

2017-03-18 Thread Jacob Goense
On 2017-03-18 12:49, Tim Stark wrote: I got and installed DOSBox 0.74. I tried to access my RT11 disk images but PUTR hung up after entered ‘mount rx0: image.dsk’. Years ago I reconstructed an RT-11/Fuzzball disk using dosemu + dosemu-freedos + PUTR. It didn't work interactively and resorted

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] Reference performance benchmarks

2016-12-12 Thread Jacob Goense
On 2016-12-12 16:34, Johnny Billquist wrote: I would start at CPU idle detection. It seems to be working, but definitely a good place to look at to get more bang(vaxen) for my bucks(cheap x86's/rpi clones). ___ Simh mailing list

Re: [Simh] Reference performance benchmarks

2016-12-12 Thread Jacob Goense
On 2016-12-12 16:09, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: For VAX-11/780 see the benchmark results and source code from Kashtan's research. AUUGN-V02.4.pdf starting on PDF page 24. And see Joy's followup in AUUGN-V02.3.pdf (PDF Page 60). See http://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN While your OS

Re: [Simh] Reference performance benchmarks

2016-12-12 Thread Jacob Goense
On 2016-12-12 16:29, khandy21yo wrote: Is your speed problem limited to disk access, or is it also CPU related? Running in a browser might mean that the disk access is going through the network, which can slow it down excessively, There are several bottlenecks on a system, like slow disks, that

Re: [Simh] Reference performance benchmarks

2016-12-12 Thread Jacob Goense
On 2016-12-12 14:34, Paul Koning wrote: On Dec 12, 2016, at 2:13 PM, Jacob Goense <d...@xs4all.nl> wrote: I'm running simh in rather tight corners. Mostly VAX/780 and PDP-11/70 with V6 or BSD. Simh runs in a browser, or, I have (too) many of them on underpowered Asus Eee PC's. Any tips on

[Simh] Reference performance benchmarks

2016-12-12 Thread Jacob Goense
I'm running simh in rather tight corners. Mostly VAX/780 and PDP-11/70 with V6 or BSD. Simh runs in a browser, or, I have (too) many of them on underpowered Asus Eee PC's. Any tips on how I can check if I have taken things too far? Like minimum values to look for in SHOW CLOCK, or any tools I can

Re: [Simh] RT-11 source

2016-10-26 Thread Jacob Goense
Oh, and of course there is Fuzzball, the early IP/TCP and NTP testbed for the PDP-11 using RT-11 for build and boot. Later on it ran production timeservers and the first NSFNet backbone. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com

Re: [Simh] RT-11 source

2016-10-23 Thread Jacob Goense
On 2016-10-22 17:46, Jacob Goense wrote: I vaguely recall lore about 4.x BSD stuff being ported to the PDP-11 ending with the machine being thrown out of the window. Citations are welcome, or maybe this should be crossed over to TUHS. Found it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVSXXeiFLgk (31

Re: [Simh] RT-11 source

2016-10-22 Thread Jacob Goense
On 2016-10-22 12:55, Al Kossow wrote: On 10/22/16 7:44 AM, Ray Jewhurst wrote: I have an idea for project to teach my self rudimentary OS design and I would like to use RT-11 as an example Did anyone ever port MINIX to the PDP-11? No way. I vaguely recall lore about 4.x BSD stuff being

Re: [Simh] SimH on Raspberry Pi - out of date?

2016-03-19 Thread Jacob Goense
On 2016-03-17 14:27, Gregg Levine wrote: If I remember correctly it would be up to the maintainer of the package as shown on the appropriate page on the Debian site. You'd need to check there to see who that is, and then follow their procedures for requesting the update. Might be a nice

Re: [Simh] KS10 IMP documentation

2016-03-02 Thread Jacob Goense
On 2016-02-29 23:26, Robert Armstrong wrote: But, be aware that all the IMP software we have is from the early 70s and predates TCP. I don’t know if there was ever any OS for the KS10 that supported NCP networking, but if there was then it’s possible you could get something running. Flag

Re: [Simh] KS10 IMP documentation

2016-02-29 Thread Jacob Goense
On 2016-02-29 22:20, SPC wrote: Hum... not sure about this, but someone talked here some years ago about a modification of the SIMH Honeywell simulator to convert it in one IMP. I assume that he had some kind of BBN IMP code. I'm not sure if this project would be limited to tray to simulate

Re: [Simh] VT100 Color of text

2016-01-09 Thread Jacob Goense
On 2016-01-09 17:58, Will Senn wrote: A little more on topic and I've asked this question differently in the past, but now I think I have a better formulation of the question - are there SimH compatible video terminal simulators available and listed somewhere? For a vt220 I just fire up putty

Re: [Simh] SIMH console settings for escape sequence support

2015-12-31 Thread Jacob Goense
On 2015-12-31 21:44, Random832 wrote: Speaking of escape sequences, for systems that don't use terminals (i.e. Windows) it might be nice for simh to have built-in emulation for something simple like a VT-52 or an ADM-3A. Or maybe have a telnet console. Terminal emulators do a good job here.

Re: [Simh] VMS/VDE: Almost there

2015-10-07 Thread Jacob Goense
On 2015-10-07 17:22, Johnny Billquist wrote: I believe there was also DECnet for SunOS, and I know there was DECnet for Symbolics Lisp machines. And people have implemented DECnet for Linux, and I'm sure there are other examples out there as well... According to its HELP.TXT even Mills'

Re: [Simh] Cutler Unix

2015-03-04 Thread Jacob Goense
On 2015-03-04 23:57, Dave Osborne wrote: Don't forget that DEC did not adopt Unix because of Ken Olsen snake oil. The IT world could have been a totally different place When was Unix put up to adoption? ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com

Re: [Simh] mac lisp on pdp-10?

2012-06-25 Thread Jacob Goense
on a related note, it seems that its.os.org is no longer on the internet, but is still listed as the URL to find ITS images, ie on trailing-edge's page for the klh10 emulator: http://klh10.trailing-edge.com/ is anyone aware of a mirror of the its.os.org files or other sources for ITS

Re: [Simh] Initializing disks under RT11

2011-12-21 Thread Jacob Goense
Nope, still getting size function failed. [ken@raptor Disks]$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=5120 of=rt11dat.dsk 5120+0 records in 5120+0 records out 5242880 bytes (5.2 MB) copied, 0.0115284 s, 455 MB/s [ken@raptor Disks]$ pdp11 rt11.cmd PDP-11 simulator V3.6-1 Create bad block table on

Re: [Simh] Initializing disks under RT11

2011-12-20 Thread Jacob Goense
Anyone know how to initialize a disk under RT-11 with simh? I can format and initialize RK05 images, but INITIALIZE fails on RL01 with ?DUP-F-Size function failed. Assuming ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Dennis_v6/v6doc.gz is a RK05 image:

Re: [Simh] Initializing disks under RT11

2011-12-20 Thread Jacob Goense
Anyone know how to initialize a disk under RT-11 with simh? I can format and initialize RK05 images, but INITIALIZE fails on RL01 with ?DUP-F-Size function failed. Assuming [snip previous reply after misreading] Here is for the RL01. root@mercury:/museum/fuzzball/a# dd if=/dev/zero

Re: [Simh] Initializing disks under RT11

2011-12-20 Thread Jacob Goense
Anyone know how to initialize a disk under RT-11 with simh? I can format and initialize RK05 images, but INITIALIZE fails on RL01 with ?DUP-F-Size function failed. Assuming [snip previous reply after misreading] Here is for the RL01. [snip previous reply after still misreading] Ok, that