Re: [Simh] Earlyish UNIX for the VAX

2020-05-08 Thread Jason Stevens
32v is widely available. It was first runnable thanks to Naousing SIMH 3.7-1 http://zazie.tom-yam.or.jp/starunix/ 32v serves as the base of 3BSD, which of course gave us 4BSD and beyond. > -- > From: m...@wickensonline.co.uk > Sent: Friday, May 8, 2020 8:26 AM > To: 's

Re: [Simh] HPE has started emailing the final hobbyist licenses

2020-03-12 Thread Jason Stevens
I have an archive of the original Quasijarus site here: https://ifctfvax.superglobalmegacorp.com/ I didn’t prune it, so all the files and whatnot are in there. If this isn’t too far off topic. But maybe something SIMH’ that maybe needs to be absorbed, I found this SUN-2 emulator a few weeks

Re: [Simh] Unattended background SIMH process

2019-11-28 Thread Jason Stevens
I wonder if you could set the console port to listen on a named pipe, and then use expect to connect and execute scripts? That way you can use one to setup the boot environment from PROM (if needed) boot, then once it’s booted, you can ‘login’ and then execute scripts to check system/network st

[Simh] Bob's interview with the computer history museum is online!

2019-08-27 Thread Jason Stevens
This just showed up on YouTube, although it is dated back from May 9th, 2017. Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3tcCBHRIfU Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk7ygEZxV9Q It’s pretty long, but it’s well worth the watch. >From the decline of the old big iron business, the rise and fall o

Re: [Simh] 3B2 Emulator - Update

2017-12-20 Thread Jason Stevens
Now we can have a super luxury machine with 4MB of RAM and 2 x 161MB disk!? And two terminals! I suppose SLIP/slattach ought to be in order then? Awesome job dude! Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Seth Morabito Sent: Monday, 18 December 2017 4:02 AM To: simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: [Si

Re: [Simh] Fortran help

2017-05-29 Thread Jason Stevens
I'll have to re-step through the Fortran install... It did work. What version of SIMH? Config file same as the walkthrough I assume...? I'll ask again about gunkies it's hard to get people added. It's not my site thought. On May 28, 2017 3:55:58 AM GMT+08:00, Ray Jewhurst wrote: >Hi, > >

Re: [Simh] Adding storage to vax running 4.3BSD

2017-05-11 Thread Jason Stevens
Eager wrote: >>>>> If you look through those instructions I posted a link to, you'll >see >>>>> how to do a disklabel. >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, 10 May 2017 07:41:01 -0700 >>>>> Alan Perry wrote: >>>>> >

Re: [Simh] Idea for a Simh guide

2017-05-10 Thread Jason Stevens
I had wanted to do something along those lines, back a while ago, which is when I started trying to put together a 'MS-DOS' DPMI version of SIMH, thinking it as the lowest common denominator, and as much of the OS's in a minimal state to basically run 'all the things' ... I figured getting a machi

Re: [Simh] Idea for a Simh guide

2017-05-10 Thread Jason Stevens
Nice looking page! When I noticed that quasijarus had gone offline, I had asked around, and managed to find someone who had a mirror, and I made a mirror of their mirror... turns out there was a maze of twisty directories, and ... intersting files. http://ifctfvax.superglobalmegacorp.com http://t

Re: [Simh] Adding storage to vax running 4.3BSD

2017-05-10 Thread Jason Stevens
If Im remembering right, straight 4.3 pre-dates the labels, it's a hard coded partition types in the drivers at this point. If you don't care, just use the 0c devices aka 'whole disk' ... or I recall that working well enough. > -- > From: Alan Perry > Sent: Wednesday, May

Re: [Simh] ts10 and mse (my new emulator) (WAS: RE: Klh10 vs Simh)

2017-02-20 Thread Jason Stevens
n to adding SDL2 API access for graphics console terminal (VAX >emulation) later. > > > > > >From: Jason Stevens [mailto:jst...@superglobalmegacorp.com] >Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2017 11:36 PM >To: simh@trailing-edge.com; Tim Stark >Subject: Re: [Simh] ts10 and mse (my

Re: [Simh] ts10 and mse (my new emulator) (WAS: RE: Klh10 vs Simh)

2017-02-19 Thread Jason Stevens
Part of OpenVPN has tun/tap for Windows. And windows does software bridges which you can bridge the tap to an Ethernet, or even among other taps.. there is code in Qemu that'll talk to the tap driver. As a footnote here is how it's done https://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/2015/01/22/

Re: [Simh] XENIX

2016-10-09 Thread Jason Stevens
Qemu can run it, some versions can boot it from diskette too. The major stumbling blocks are it detecting media types, and people picking insanely large disks... http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Xenix_2.x_on_Qemu https://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/2011/04/08/installing-xenix-on-qe

Re: [Simh] Older Model VAX simulators, what can you do with them and how do they work?

2016-10-09 Thread Jason Stevens
It's been ages since I've updated the gunkies stuff. I can ask Tore to get you an account if you want to contribute.. I've been meaning to try the other VAX models, I just haven't gotten around to it yet. On 09 October 2016 10:40:14 PM GMT+08:00, Ray Jewhurst wrote: >Hello everyone, > > >I h

Re: [Simh] alpha emulator

2016-10-02 Thread Jason Stevens
Oh wow, I wondered what happened.. Es40 was too promising to just evaporate. Thanks for the update On 02 October 2016 3:25:57 PM GMT+08:00, Jeremy Begg wrote: >Hi, > >>Es40 was another >>http://www.es40.org/Homepage > >Discontinued in 2009. > >>On 02 October 2016 3:13:15 PM GMT+08:00, Cory Sm

Re: [Simh] alpha emulator

2016-10-02 Thread Jason Stevens
Es40 was another http://www.es40.org/Homepage On 02 October 2016 3:13:15 PM GMT+08:00, Cory Smelosky wrote: >There is also alphavm-free unless that's just a different name > >Sent from my iPhone > >On Oct 1, 2016, at 20:54, Jeremy Begg < jer...@vsm.com.au > > wrote: >

Re: [Simh] VAX 780 emulation - How to install Netbsd

2014-12-25 Thread Jason Stevens
I had installed NetBSD 1.2 a while back.. I documented the steps here.. http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_NetBSD_1.2_on_the_SIMH_MicroVAX_II And I should have an installed version kicking around on sourceforge http://so

Re: [Simh] 4.2BSD with networking on a VAX 11/780

2014-07-15 Thread Jason Stevens
Glad you could reproduce it... although I did this years ago.. Finding the driver in Google groups was a godsend, since it was pretty useless without networking. Years ago I built a few things for 4.2 to make it feel a little more modern, although to be honest the UWSIC build of 4.3BSD is so mu

Re: [Simh] Ultrix 1.0

2014-06-26 Thread Jason Stevens
I wonder if it's related to the BSD driver for the network card Years ago I was playing with 4.2 and 4.3BSD and I never could get the network card to work, so I started to play with the driver, and I found this: In the if_de.c driver there is some error checking, that always seems to come

Re: [Simh] simh under slackware64

2012-02-21 Thread Jason Stevens
I would start by building libpcap yourself if its not in the system... -Original Message- From: valdir [mailto:valdir.marques.fr...@itelefonica.com.br] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 4:52 PM To: simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: [Simh] simh under slackware64 Hi.. Did anyone get suc

Re: [Simh] Modifying SimH kit

2011-10-18 Thread Jason Stevens
On windows I presume, what part of SIMH? the MicroVAX? 11/780? (I'm assuming VAX because of what was mentioned way below..) I can whip up something, the patch looks trivial but I'd need to know which thing you want and if you need networking -Original Message- From: Patrick Renouvel

Re: [Simh] SIMH vax.ini fine tuning

2011-09-19 Thread Jason Stevens
I'm also partial to the throttle command... I run a 11/780 (retromud.superglobalmegacorp.com) and 3% gives me the 'feel' of an older machine ... And my VPS provider hasn't complained about it either Which is nice as you cannot do anything to spike the cpu to 100% . For what it's worth..

Re: [Simh] simh

2011-07-14 Thread Jason Stevens
bash-3.2$ BIN/vax780 VAX780 simulator V3.8-1 sim> set dz lines=32 sim> show dz DZ, address=2013E040-2013E05F*, vector=C0-DC, lines=32, not attached, 8b bash-3.2$ BIN/vax VAX simulator V3.8-1 sim> set dz lines=32 Invalid argument sim> set dz lines=16 sim> show dz DZ, address=2040-205F*,

Re: [Simh] VAXstation 2000

2011-05-25 Thread Jason Stevens
I've uploaded it to sourceforge FWIW.. On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Michael Kerpan wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:43 PM,   wrote: >> This may be a duplicate post; I tried several days ago but was unsuccessful. >> >> There has been a lot of discussion around graphics support recently

Re: [Simh] Problems compling SIMH

2011-05-22 Thread Jason Stevens
mkdir BIN :) On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Joe Ambrose wrote: > I've downloaded SIMH 3.8-1, and I’m running into a problem with the > makefile. > > I've copied the output of the following command... ( i've prettied it > > up for clarity) > > I'm running Redhat Enterprise v3 > > > > make   US

Re: [Simh] VAX DZ terminal controller unit?

2011-05-19 Thread Jason Stevens
I'd try the 'modem' setup for the DZ ... I recall something similar with Unix/32v set dz lines=16 att dz -m 2311 Is what seemed to work for that (I am going from memory).. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Gary Lee Phillips wrote: > I'm running SIMH 3.8 on Ubuntu 10.04 with OpenVMS 7.3 from the

Re: [Simh] Unable to connect to ethernet

2011-05-16 Thread Jason Stevens
I'd try it over a wired interface if possible.. On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Robert F. Thomas wrote: > We have downloaded SIMH and installed the latest version of WinPCAP on my > Windows-7 SP1 Laptop. > > Vax.exe has administrator priviledges.  VMS and UCX loaded and installed with > no

Re: [Simh] Emulated Graphics card?

2011-05-14 Thread Jason Stevens
I don't see how it cant stub out like the networking with a null set.. Not to mention it makes adding other things a snap. Much like how I could take the ethernet and interface it to slirp, or local files, or pretty much anything that can read/write and alert on reception On Sat, May 14,

Re: [Simh] Emulated Graphics card?

2011-05-12 Thread Jason Stevens
Would this make SDL better since it's LGPL as long as you call it dynamically...? On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Michael Kerpan wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:05 PM, John Floren wrote: >> I recently integrated LibVNCServer with a VESA implementation I did for a >> KVM project. Very easy,

Re: [Simh] Emulated Graphics card?

2011-05-12 Thread Jason Stevens
A while ago I started taking the PDP-11 that'd been modified for graphics, and I managed to get it to start to ouput on SDL.. It's reasonably portable, but I didn't think there was any interest... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1694005/simh302-sdl-display-0.c I think the pallet needed some work, and the

Re: [Simh] SIMH internals documentation?

2011-05-08 Thread Jason Stevens
If you are seeing Japanese text, it's because the primary API set in VS changed from ANSI to Unicode... Look for all the api calls and either put A's on the end of them (MsgBoxA, CreateWindowA..), or there is some macro to set, or a flag to the C compiler to default to ASCII On Sun, May 8,

Re: [Simh] Running and compiling SIMH under 64-bit Windows 7

2011-05-02 Thread Jason Stevens
2011/5/2 Vorländer, Martin : > I have an nmake makefile (for Visual Studio Express 2005, or was it 2008?) > on my website under > http://vms.pdv-systeme.de/users/martinv/simh-38-1-makefile_vc.txt > Martin, it works GREAT! I just had to change the libpcap to pull from the x86 subdirectory, and ch

Re: [Simh] Running and compiling SIMH under 64-bit Windows 7

2011-05-02 Thread Jason Stevens
tp://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/Vsexpressvc/thread/4ce313a3-cb5f-43fc-bbb9-50233f8ed11b > > which seem to indicate I may be OK. > > Sigh !  Too many toolset options compared with what I was used to under > OpenVMS VAX / Alpha ! > > Cheers > Jason > > -Orig

Re: [Simh] Running and compiling SIMH under 64-bit Windows 7

2011-05-02 Thread Jason Stevens
I'm pretty sure I've done it at some point I've done a VC 2005 project on older source here.. http://sourceforge.net/projects/simh/files/simh%20source%20code/simh%203.7-3/simh-3.73-vc2005.zip/download I guess I could update it, is Visual Studio 2010 ok? I need to do a 'proper' Itanium versi

[Simh] javascript pdp-11

2011-05-01 Thread Jason Stevens
I thought you guys may enjoy this... http://aiju.de/code/pdp11/ It's a PDP-11 with a teletype console, and a RK05 with Unix v6. Because browsers are weird, here is some of the keycommands... DEL is the interrupt key (^C on modern *nix), Pause the quit key (^\ or ^L) and PrtScr is EOF (^D). ___

Re: [Simh] VAX-3900 only autoboots if you have >64Mb??

2011-04-14 Thread Jason Stevens
ka655x.bin is the 'extended' rom for additional memory... if you want to boot up with a small amount then you want ka655.bin I'm sure it's in here ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/simh/files/simh%20source%20code/Older%20versions/ ) somewhere.. If you can't find it let me know I'm sure I have it k

Re: [Simh] Present For You

2011-03-21 Thread Jason Stevens
Sigh its spam.. On Monday, March 21, 2011, Bob Rodriguez wrote: > I think it might be interesting for you in this coming year > http://www.research-site.org/info.html > > ___ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-ed

Re: [Simh] Microsoft Giano

2011-03-20 Thread Jason Stevens
http://vpsland.superglobalmegacorp.com/install/NetBSD/NetBSD-4.0.1/emips3.img.7z It seems someone at microsoft saw simh, and decided to re-invent the wheel as it were.. On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Chris Turner wrote: > On 03/20/11 00:11, Jason Stevens wrote: > >> I was wondering i

[Simh] Microsoft Giano

2011-03-19 Thread Jason Stevens
I was wondering if anyone has seen this or played with it? http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/02e2edbf-c76c-47d5-b9c0-2c9915c63e98/default.aspx It does incorporate some SIMH components, namely the MicroVAX II stuff... I found it on some stray google query about VAX's at Microsoft back

Re: [Simh] New to the List + Questions

2011-03-08 Thread Jason Stevens
Hi there! > > And now, my absolute final question; I'm interested in trying to run > UNIX V7M, but I don't have the distribution tape made (namely, I'd > like to try this one: > http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/pups/PDP-11/Distributions/dec/Jean_Huens_v7m/ > ), nor do I know how to make a SIMH bootable

Re: [Simh] minimal linux

2011-03-03 Thread Jason Stevens
> Hi, Jason, > > There are any number of minimal Linux distros available using the latest > kernels.  Why travel so far back in time for the base platform?  Why not > reserve those impulses for the systems we love to emulate? ;-) > >                                                                Ri

[Simh] minimal linux

2011-03-03 Thread Jason Stevens
While I was reading that slashdot thread of people reminiscing about Linux in the late 1990's (http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/03/03/006250/Reminiscing-Old-School-Linux ), I found mention of this gem... spkdoom. It's 2.7MB compressed, and setup as a UMS-DOS filesystem.  I know with it being Lin

Re: [Simh] Server down.

2011-01-28 Thread Jason Stevens
It's up for me however for trailing-edge.com .. It works! This is the default web page for this server. The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet. > Is it down again? I can't access scandocs.trailing-edge.com (or anything > else at trailing-edge.com really)

Re: [Simh] Server down.

2011-01-27 Thread Jason Stevens
It's up now(well it seems for me)... Don't forget there is also sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/simh/ I know it's got a bum rep being all 'web 1.0' but they have mirrors world wide. On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Michael Richter wrote:

Re: [Simh] VMS 4.6 won't boot from a Massbus disk

2011-01-26 Thread Jason Stevens
I recall this being a big deal for OpenBSD as well. And of course they just said, that it works on real hardware, it's not their problem to fix, etc etc. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Brian Knittel wrote: > > I am running this on a recently purchased quad-core system that is rather >

Re: [Simh] O2 optimization on Linux

2011-01-03 Thread Jason Stevens
wait, it should have been more like this > #define ML_SBR_TEST(r) if (((uint32)(r)) & 0xC03u) != 0) RSVD_OPND_FAULT > #define ML_PXBR_TEST(r) if (uint32)(r)) & 0x8000u) == 0) || \ >                            (((uint32)(r)) & 0x4003u) != 0)) > RSVD_OPND_FAULT into this: #define

Re: [Simh] O2 optimization on Linux

2011-01-03 Thread Jason Stevens
Hmmm interesting I found that these macros compile though... #define ML_PXBR_TEST(r) if (uint32)r) & 0x8000u) == 0) || \ (((uint32)r) & 0x4003u)!=0) RSVD_OPND_FAULT #define ML_SBR_TEST(r) if (((uint32)(r) & 0x0003u)!=0) RSVD_OPND_FAULT it's too m

Re: [Simh] Install of VMS4.6 on VAX 780 crashes

2010-12-28 Thread Jason Stevens
You didn't build it with -O2 on linux did you? There is some weird things with GCC and SIMH's VAX... I can only speak to 4.X BSD, but I was able to identify two procedures that when optimized with -O2 break 4BSD on SIMH I kind of detailed it here: http://www.mail-archive.com/simh@trailing-e

Re: [Simh] old computer virii

2010-12-24 Thread Jason Stevens
Heh, I just said that and... http://www.foo.be/docs-free/morris-worm/worm/ there you go. lol. I'd say how did we live before google, but the sad thing is that this will show up in google, making this conversation circular, and useless. :| On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Fernan Bolando wro

Re: [Simh] old computer virii

2010-12-24 Thread Jason Stevens
t;> wikipedia says the creeper virus runs on pdp10 >> >> On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Jason Stevens wrote: >>> where there any?  I've heard of some fun worms but that old morris & >>> Father Christmas one... >>> >>> Maybe the latter would

Re: [Simh] old computer virii

2010-12-24 Thread Jason Stevens
where there any? I've heard of some fun worms but that old morris & Father Christmas one... Maybe the latter would be appropriate for the season... On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Fernan Bolando wrote: > anybody knows where i can sources for the old pdp and tops based viruses? > _

[Simh] SIMH on Windows CE (booting!)

2010-12-23 Thread Jason Stevens
Well after a bit of fighting this abandoned thing called libce & w32console from emacs... I've managed to boot 4.2 BSD on my "test" Windows CE 3.0 machine (Qemu 0.13.0 running the CEPC image). Amazingly it works. kind of. The downside seems to be me constantly doing message peeks as a kbhit r

Re: [Simh] SIMH on Windows CE

2010-12-20 Thread Jason Stevens
hat is left in CVS... I guess that is the larger challenge, unless you run it you really don't even know what is there, and to assume that things like CVS histories are complete well let's just say you may be in for a shock! On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:45 PM, dott.Piergiorgio w

Re: [Simh] SIMH on Windows CE

2010-12-20 Thread Jason Stevens
Ah good point And I think CE 3.0 and above support massive disks? On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Dave wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com >> [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Jason Stevens >> Sent: 20 D

Re: [Simh] SIMH on Windows CE

2010-12-20 Thread Jason Stevens
n 3 Oh well. I'm just glad I didn't toss my 2.11 stuff, it's been a lifesaver! On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Ian King wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Jason Stevens [mailto:neoz...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 9:30 AM >>

Re: [Simh] SIMH on Windows CE

2010-12-20 Thread Jason Stevens
p. I just hate how MS pretends old products never existed... But at the same time, I'm kind of liking the setup... I must be weird, I guess. On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Jason Stevens wrote: >> Right now I'm trying to

Re: [Simh] SIMH on Windows CE

2010-12-20 Thread Jason Stevens
> Hello! > I quite agree Ian. Jason when was the last time you were inside a > Borders, or even the Cable TV office? I'll have to confess, I don't have cable tv, nor have I paid attention to the kiosks.. however after talking with friends, you really can't beat the x86 platform... Although for work

Re: [Simh] SIMH on Windows CE

2010-12-20 Thread Jason Stevens
__ > From: simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com [simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On > Behalf Of Jason Stevens [neoz...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 11:14 AM > To: simh@trailing-edge.com > Subject: [Simh] SIMH on Windows CE > > For what it's worth,

[Simh] SIMH on Windows CE

2010-12-19 Thread Jason Stevens
For what it's worth, I'm making some headway this time http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_12wzyW-As9g/TQ5YuYqXBkI/EzQ/luE8hHGqSIQ/s1600/AltairSIMH%2BCE%2B2.11.png I just have to see if CE's minimal libc has any good keyboard routines, or what else could be involved... Or maybe I'll just cheat

Re: [Simh] porting simh to plan9

2010-12-16 Thread Jason Stevens
lots of printf's in scp.c ought to help I wish I were more ... plan9 aware, but the curve was too steep for my mind. I'd look at the OS2 tags in SIMH though as it builds something pretty bare, which I've used to build for things like Watcom C++'s quickwin thing for Win32s . On Thu, Dec 1

Re: [Simh] set cpu idle questions again??

2010-12-08 Thread Jason Stevens
do a show cpu I know sometimes it'll complain but do what is needed... also I think it needs to be in UpPeRcAsE! On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Fernan Bolando wrote: > Hi all > > I am trying to get openbsd/vax running with cpu idle support, but I am > not getting it work > > mac0: fernan; ./vax

Re: [Simh] simh lightweight OS (was RE: Hardware Requirements)

2010-12-07 Thread Jason Stevens
SIMH has worked on MS-DOS for a long while now... Just think of it as 'OS/2' ... :) a 'direct' link to download it is here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/simh/files/simh%20binaries/3-8.1/simh-3.8-1_MS-DOSi386-exe.zip/download The only 'catch' of course is that anyone hoping for massive files or

Re: [Simh] Hardware Requirements

2010-12-06 Thread Jason Stevens
Just about any 32bit machine will do, heck SIMH even builds on MS-DOS! speed is always relative... I first started with the pdp-11 running unix v7 on a Pentium 60... Like everything else, faster is always better, and you may as well download it and try it. You can find exe's and various OS's he

[Simh] more info on gcc vs the VAX780...

2010-11-07 Thread Jason Stevens
(Sorry this is long.. the short version is for i386 use -O2, where possible, and for the x86_64 -O1 beats -O2!!, and the x86_64 is a good 30% faster) For all my testing, I'm using my desktop, an Intel Q9300 @ 2.5Ghz (quad core cpu, 3MB cache) running OS X 10.6.4, with 8GB of ram. I have my machin

[Simh] VAX cpu optimizations.... (re -O1 vs -O2)

2010-11-07 Thread Jason Stevens
Well I had a few hours to kill so I started to do some variations in compiling vax_cpu1.c to see exactly what breaks when it's compiled with -O2 flags with GCC.. I don't claim to be all that of a great C guy but I've isolated the following procedures that break under O2 optimizations with 4BSD

Re: [Simh] scripting simh

2010-10-18 Thread Jason Stevens
well for the Unix stuff, I actually just modified the source to the bootloaders to just boot unix automatically.. I remember for 32v I even had the bootloader print up the caldera license, then boot up right away it seemed like an easier (and more "portable" ) solution for booting unix

Re: [Simh] NetBSD5.0.2

2010-09-03 Thread Jason Stevens
> > > Was this with or without the other vax idle patch (correcting interaction > with console and other background polling events) already applied? > > Peter > > Great news, OSX is now idling at 15-20%.. It's certainly an improvement. I'll up a patch that combines the regression (OLDVMS) and incl

Re: [Simh] NetBSD5.0.2

2010-09-03 Thread Jason Stevens
> > Was this with or without the other vax idle patch (correcting interaction > with console and other background polling events) already applied? > > Peter > > No, I'll go ahead and try mixing all of them together ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-

Re: [Simh] NetBSD5.0.2

2010-09-02 Thread Jason Stevens
Well getting back to the start of the thread, what I've done here is regressed the idle code to include an "OLDVMS" option which set the idle timings and hook to the old pre 3.8-1 levels, allowing things like 4.2 BSD, and other BSD's to idle correctly. Note that this is *FAR* from tested, as I

Re: [Simh] OSX builds

2010-09-02 Thread Jason Stevens
oll that into any mainline builds. I guess I'll have to download some miniroot or something for NetBSD to watch it idle. I assume the MicroVAX II is where everyone is using this On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Jason Stevens wrot

[Simh] OSX builds

2010-09-02 Thread Jason Stevens
ok now that I've finally gotten my hands on 10.6.3 I've built i386/x86_64/ppc7400 builds for everything I tested what I could and it seems to work. If anyone else can verify so that I don't have a repeat of that 10.4.5 disaster... ___ Simh mailing li

Re: [Simh] SIMH future releases / Sourceforge project (was RE: NetBSD5.0.2)

2010-09-02 Thread Jason Stevens
I did have a basic port to SDL for the spacewar thing, I need to finalize the palette and bring it up to the 3.8-1 release... Somehow I got distracted with a copy of UnixWare for some reason On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:08 PM, dott.Piergiorgio < dott.piergior...@fastwebnet.it> wrote: > Il 02/09/

Re: [Simh] SIMH future releases / Sourceforge project

2010-09-02 Thread Jason Stevens
hiatuses on my own stuff, sourceforge has kept things around which is nice. Oh well I see I'm rambling like crazy so I'll stop for now, but that's my $0.02 .. Jason Stevens ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh

Re: [Simh] SIMH future releases / Sourceforge project (was RE:NetBSD5.0.2)

2010-09-02 Thread Jason Stevens
sounds good to me, I've been keeping some stuff here: http://gunkies.org/wiki/Category:SIMH_Tutorials but it would seem the people behind it, have let it follow into disrepair, as I haven't gotten any word back after a blatant spam attack... worst

Re: [Simh] NetBSD5.0.2

2010-09-02 Thread Jason Stevens
the patch doesn't look overly complex, let me manually re-enter it On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Nigel Horne wrote: > On 02/09/10 11:55, Jason Stevens wrote: > > I get the impression you should unzip with the -a flag to put the patch in > your native CR/LF format. > &

Re: [Simh] NetBSD5.0.2

2010-09-02 Thread Jason Stevens
I get the impression you should unzip with the -a flag to put the patch in your native CR/LF format. On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Nigel Horne wrote: > On 02/09/10 11:14, Jason Stevens wrote: > >> The direct link is here: >> >> >> >> http://sourceforg

Re: [Simh] NetBSD5.0.2

2010-09-02 Thread Jason Stevens
cess so I'll be updating with some 10.6.3 binaries...!). Send me what you have, and I'll add it to the sourceforge page. On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Rick Murphy wrote: > At 06:14 AM 9/2/2010, Jason Stevens wrote: > >> The direct link is here: >> >> >> <

Re: [Simh] NetBSD5.0.2

2010-09-02 Thread Jason Stevens
The direct link is here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/simh/files/Unofficial%20Patches/3.8.1/simh_vax_cpu_idle.zip/download I've placed all that I can in the 'browse all files' On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Nigel Horne wrote: > Peter, > > I can't get the idle detection to work - Sim

Re: [Simh] Fix for SIMH networking on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow-Leopard

2010-08-20 Thread Jason Stevens
Can you contribue some OS X 10.6 binaries? Currently we have none on sourceforge as I don't have any real intel boxes... Thanks! On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Van Overbeek, Ton wrote: > I (finally) migrated from OS X 10.5 to OS X 10.6.4 and found out that I > lost > > network connectivity o

Re: [Simh] simh on MAC os (booting problem)

2010-08-09 Thread Jason Stevens
I would suggest trying to boot directly from the CD device... I think you can just point readcd to /dev/disk1 to creat an 'better' ISO image... I know for making Solaris CD images I needed to use readcd vs dd as readcd could deal with different sessions, and sector sizes... On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 a

[Simh] OS X intel

2010-08-05 Thread Jason Stevens
I came across the "tiger-x86-flat.img" file recently and was able to boot it under Qemu... So the upshot is now I have OS X intel binaries, albeit from a seemingly ancient compiler, the pre-release 10.4.1 for intel. I was wondering if anyone with OS X / Intel can test these binaries to make sure t

Re: [Simh] Graphics on SimH

2010-07-10 Thread Jason Stevens
Ok, I've taken a first pass on moving this to SDL... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1694005/simh302-sdl-display-0.c I've been building under MinGW so it's unix-like... I'll have to try this on a bsd/linux system later... For now just replace the x11/win32 file with this one, and make sure your SDL stuf

Re: [Simh] Graphics on SimH

2010-07-09 Thread Jason Stevens
Bob, If you could post that PDP-1 work somewhere, I've love to tackle it...! I'm sure I could cook up something SDL/VNC wise I know it may not count for much here, but I did manage to get Quake running on NeXTSTEP (from the SDL sources), and I think I could at least get that going... I'

Re: [Simh] UNS: Graphics on SimH

2010-07-09 Thread Jason Stevens
well again I say look at Qemu... they do both vnc & sdl there isn't any reason why you can't have both... On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Michael Kerpan wrote: > Regardless of where SDL works, I still think that doing things in such > a way SIMH simply exports the graphics via RFB./VNC w

Re: [Simh] An idea for graphics support in SIMH

2010-07-07 Thread Jason Stevens
What if your host doesn't have X11...? Also I would surmise you could 'borrow' the vnc code from Qemu .They've managed to work that into all kinds of frame buffers On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Michael Kerpan wrote: > One thing that's always bugged me was the fact that SIMH has no

Re: [Simh] Software For Imaging Floppy Disks for SIMH

2010-06-14 Thread Jason Stevens
22disk? I guess the question is where did the disks come from, and in what format? On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Rob Jarratt wrote: > What software is there to image a floppy disk for use with SIMH? > > Thanks > > Rob > > ___ > Simh mailing list >

Re: [Simh] LGP-30

2010-06-07 Thread Jason Stevens
with a leading + sign, like +100 - > and don't press ENTER after the input. Hit F1 instead, to continue > execution). > > If you need further hints, please let me know. > > Getting this simulation to run might give you a clue how to work with SIMH, > and if not, you at lea

Re: [Simh] LGP-30

2010-06-05 Thread Jason Stevens
here is what I tried set cpu tape set cpu 6b set cpu input=ptr set cpu output=tto set ptr ascii attach -a ptr bkjck.tx run I've also tried 4bit as well.. (flex format, and different cpu types too) no luck.. there is no sample programs in the software kits ( http://simh.trailing-edge.com/sof

Re: [Simh] vax780 and Process PTE in P0 or P1 space, PC: 80007E43 (XORW3 @-7035(AP), @D0FD2A4A, @-70B0(R1))

2010-05-06 Thread Jason Stevens
It'll be something in the optimizations you've got in building the vax780 emulator... This looks a lot like what with what happened when I had O2 flags under linux producing something that couldn't boot 4.2 BSD... On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I am trying to use simh-v

Re: [Simh] Making tape/disk images

2010-05-03 Thread Jason Stevens
TME does this (the machine emulator, it's geared to some old SUN stuff)... Which always sounds like fun until you get some tape with like 50+ files But maybe I'm just getting cranky... :) IMHO it's way more "transportable" giving someone a single tape file, vs a tonne of lose files O

Re: [Simh] Making tape/disk images

2010-04-29 Thread Jason Stevens
I've been using the perl script 'mkdisttap.pl' for unix installs http://gunkies.org/wiki/Mkdisttap.pl The OS's that'll boot on a MicroVAX II seem to work just fine On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Michael Richter wrote: > Is there an easy way to tak

Re: [Simh] [PATCH] tun/tap networking support

2010-04-29 Thread Jason Stevens
Ok, just to let you know, I've included the patch into the 'unofficial' group on sourceforge...! I'd recommend using the 'unzip -a' to make sure it's in your local text format when you go to apply this... Also this tuntap is currently for Linux only, although I would suspect it wouldn't be too in

Re: [Simh] NetBSD VAX and Ubuntu networking

2010-04-27 Thread Jason Stevens
Also, I'm pretty sure I built these statically for Linux http://sourceforge.net/projects/simh/files/simh%20ethernet%20binaries/simh-3.8-1%20ether/simh-v3.8-1_linuxi386-ether.zip/download so they ought to 'just work' as it were... ___ Simh mailing l

Re: [Simh] NetBSD VAX and Ubuntu networking

2010-04-27 Thread Jason Stevens
Usually it's not all that involved libpcap does a great job of injecting packets onto the wire... Naturally I'm a big fan of the whole slirp thing for tcp/ip but then not everyone uses tcpip for their networking... On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Vince Mulhollon wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27,

Re: [Simh] NetBSD VAX and Ubuntu networking

2010-04-27 Thread Jason Stevens
post the .ini file you are using, and the associated output an "ifconfig -a " on your host wouldn't hurt either to get an idea of how you are trying to run this.. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Pär Moberg wrote: > Hello > I can't get the vax simulator to network with my ubuntu 9.10.

Re: [Simh] Tip for using PuTTY Telnet client to connect to SIMH serial ports

2010-04-26 Thread Jason Stevens
Hmm thanks for the hint, I've been using flashterm and going insane with why I have to llogin ... :) On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:29 AM, roy hills wrote: > I'm not sure if this is common knowledge, but I thought I'd post to the > list just in case it's not and others have had this problem. > > I

[Simh] patches

2010-04-22 Thread Jason Stevens
Ok, I've gathered all the known patches for 3.8-1 and they are in source form on sourceforge. If anyone has any more patches, let me know, and I'll put them up on the site. (unofficial patches, 3.8-1) Jason ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com h

Re: [Simh] Status?

2010-04-22 Thread Jason Stevens
Oops somehow I hit the send key combo So, I'll just repost this... I don't have access to allow others to contribute, as I'm just a downstream contributer.. Anyways the 'quickest' and easiest thing to do is send me a zip (tarball, whatever) of what patch you have a description, and I'll setu

Re: [Simh] Status?

2010-04-22 Thread Jason Stevens
I don't have access to allow others to contribute, as I'm just a downstream contributer.. Anyways the 'quickest' and easiest thing to do is send me a zip (tarball, whatever) of what patch you have a description, and I'll setup a 'patch' directory off the main version I know there is the follo

Re: [Simh] Status?

2010-04-21 Thread Jason Stevens
Hey just to let you know I'm "neozeed/neozeed2".. (yeah I lost a password at some point, but I figured it out...) Anyways I've been waiting in the wings like everyone else... I don't get magical access, but I do get to update the sourceforge page with what I build As for the moment I don't kn

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