Re: [Simh] Tops-20 4.1 on simh PDP-10: trouble during install

2020-01-26 Thread Quentin North
Hi Tom I have TOPS-10 monitor 7.04 running quite happily on simh. One of things I found was that set cpu idle may not always be ok, but is fine when you have a working o/s. Also I set cpu tops10 - I’m not sure what this does but it means it works. Here is my tops 10 startup script: set cpu to

Re: [Simh] pdp10 mux and clock issue?

2019-02-25 Thread Quentin North
> using to connected to the DZ ports. > > Thanks. > > - Mark >   <> > From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com > <mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com>] On Behalf Of Quentin North > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2019 2:54 PM > To: simh mailto:simh

[Simh] pdp10 mux and clock issue?

2019-02-25 Thread Quentin North
Hi Im using the pdp10 emulator and running tops10 7.0.4 and Im seeing a couple of issues: - Intermittently a terminal session will issue a TOPS-10 command (say R SUBFIL) and the mux will echo the characters but then the session will not do any output from the system until I go to the CTY and g

[Simh] DZ issues on PDP10

2018-04-14 Thread Quentin North
Hi There has been quite a bit of chat about the DZ handler recently, so I just wanted to share an issue that I have found whilst using a DZ mux on pdp10. When I have more than one terminal connected, intermittently i/o on one terminal stop until there is i/o on another terminal (usually me pres

Re: [Simh] Printer on TOPS-10

2018-03-22 Thread Quentin North
AM. > LPTSPL will make the right choice if you MONGEN the printer correctly, as > will any application that asks for the printer type (or uses the LL > pseudo-device). > > On 21-Mar-18 10:24, Quentin North wrote: >> Having fixed the LPFORMS, SYSTEM.CMD and SYSJOB.INI, and e

Re: [Simh] Printer on TOPS-10

2018-03-21 Thread Quentin North
Having fixed the LPFORMS, SYSTEM.CMD and SYSJOB.INI, and enable lp20 in simh, I still couldn’t get it to work until I did the shutdown and startup as below. Now it prints. Hurrah! 14:18:09Printer 0 -- Not available right now -- OPR>shutdown printer 0 OPR> 14:18:14Printer 0 -

[Simh] Printer on TOPS-10

2018-03-19 Thread Quentin North
Possibly a silly question, but does anyone know how to get the printer to work on TOPS-10 on simh? I have attached a printer files to the printer device but the printer and the spooler fills up with output on TOPS-10, but the the printer stays offline in TOPS-10 and I cant find out how to get it

Re: [Simh] [SPAM?] TOPS-10 question

2018-02-21 Thread Quentin North
Feb 2018, at 06:39, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > > Quentin North wrote: >> Im trying to get the BCPL compiler on TOPS-10 going > > Which one? It would be interesting to have Essex BCPL and see if it's > possible to build the Trubshaw & Bartle MUD. ___

[Simh] TOPS-10 question

2018-02-20 Thread Quentin North
Hi all Im trying to get the BCPL compiler on TOPS-10 going and I have the install CTL file which sets out the following pre-requisites: THE FOLLOWING MODS TO THE SYSTEM/CUSPS ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE SMOOTH ; ; RUNNING OF BCPL PROGRAMS: ; ;

Re: [Simh] Tops-10 question/help

2018-02-08 Thread Quentin North
Thanks Rich. At Tim’s suggestion I cracked it by giving the user account profile a quota on dskb: and that automatically included dskb: in the search list for the user account. > On 9 Feb 2018, at 00:25, Rich Alderson wrote: > >> From: Quentin North >> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2

[Simh] Tops-10 question/help

2018-02-07 Thread Quentin North
Hi all A bit off topic, but Im not a historical Dec user so don’t know some of the basics with Dec OSes and have never oped one before. I have installed and configured Tops-10 on a simh PDP10. It is all fine, but when I am creating user accounts I have bumped into two minor issues and after wa

Re: [Simh] Crowther's Adventure game

2018-02-03 Thread Quentin North
That's amazing! I'll have to see if I can get it all going as i have never opped a Dec 10 so it will be a learning journey. Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Feb 2018, at 18:04, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > > Quentin North wrote: >> A bit off topic, but if anyone has a BCPL

Re: [Simh] Crowther's Adventure game

2018-02-03 Thread Quentin North
A bit off topic, but if anyone has a BCPL compiler for the Dec 10 I have the source code and files to the original Essex MUD. Unfortunately I think the compiler is lost, but I live in hope. Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Feb 2018, at 15:06, Bob Nelson wrote: > > There are people trying to preser

Re: [Simh] PDP11 on Simh for public access

2018-01-18 Thread Quentin North
es wrote: > > Thanks. I just tried sudo apt-get install simh and it tells me that I am on > the latest version (3.8.1-5) . Is there a newer one, and if so how do I > install it? > > On 18 January 2018 at 16:47, Quentin North <mailto:quen...@quentin.org.uk>> wrote: &

[Simh] Latest pull for HP2100 seems to loose time

2017-07-31 Thread Quentin North
HI I have the latest pull for smh and I am running HP/Access o/s on the HP2100 cpu & iop. On the latest pull the guest OS seems to loose track of time, notably about 5 minutes over two hours. Anyone got any ideas about what might be going on? Thanks Quentin ___

Re: [Simh] Question about card readers.

2016-05-26 Thread Quentin North
I wonder whether OP is referring to a situation where there is a 96 character line, such as a programming language statement, and that the first 80 characters would be on a card and then the remaining 16 characters would be on the next card but with a continuation character in, say, column 1. I

Re: [Simh] Way out idea for simh

2016-04-20 Thread Quentin North
I second kermit as a general purpose solution. It also supports non ascii character sets which for some older systems is important. Failing that paper tape as a txt file works. Sent from my iPhone > On 20 Apr 2016, at 18:00, Sampsa Laine wrote: > > >> On 20 Apr 2016, at 19:58, Johnny Billqu

Re: [Simh] Intel's PL/M-86, ASM86 and iAPX-86 Utilities source code

2016-02-22 Thread Quentin North
I remember using iRMX-86 which was a realtime os environment and from memory had a ucsd like menu based user interface along with PLM-86 as the main programming language. We used it for building flight simulator visual systems. Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Feb 2016, at 15:31, Armistead, Jason B

Re: [Simh] Graphics Terminals and Graphic System Phototypesetters

2015-12-10 Thread Quentin North
> >> On Dec 9, 2015, at 10:33 PM, Will Senn wrote: >> ... >> Is is possible to simulate a graphics terminal in SimH for the >> PDP-11/40/45/70. So far, I have been able to get a text console working (I >> think it's a Teletype ASR-33) and serial consoles (DCI). I have seen some >> video of re

[Simh] Tcp keepalive on hp2100 mux

2015-01-16 Thread Quentin North
Hi I have noticed an issue with the HP2100 mux that results in telnet sessions that are unexpectedly dropped by the remote being left in an established state indefinitely and therefore clogging up mux ports even though the simulated system shows them as disconnected. I believe this may be to do

[Simh] Principal vintage software developer

2014-06-10 Thread Quentin North
I saw this job advertised in Seattle which may be of interest to members of the list http://www.vulcan.com/About/Job-Listings?jvi=oTAQYfw1,Job Brush off your PDP and CDC skills. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edg

[Simh] GE are hiring PDP-11 assembler programmers

2013-06-19 Thread Quentin North
I don't know if anyone else has picked up on this, but GE Canada are hiring PDP-11 assembler programmers. More details via this news article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/19/nuke_plants_to_keep_pdp11_until_2050/ ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trai

Re: [Simh] Extended SimH on BeagleBone controls real blinkenlight panels

2012-04-21 Thread Quentin North (noisy)
On 20 Apr 2012, at 20:46, Nathan Cutler wrote: > > If I remember correctly, the SimH serial-port emulation relies on > telnet. Awhile back I tried to attach a real VT420 to a SimH/VAX > instance running OpenVMS 7.3, and as I found out it's not really the > same as running a VT420 attached to a r

Re: [Simh] Extended SimH on BeagleBone controls real blinkenlight panels

2012-04-20 Thread Quentin North (noisy)
Very off topic, but there is a old HP computer simulator called HP9800E which fully simulates in software the look, feel and sound of the HP98XX range of programmable calculators/computers. If you run it up it makes the fan noises and the printer noises and everything whilst flashing all thr rig

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: rasberry pi

2012-03-08 Thread Quentin North (noisy)
I run simh on a sheevaplug with two concurrent HP2100 systems simulated with network based interconnect kits between the two. With only a single Arm core the performance takes a hit on CPU before memory becomes an issue. Sent from my iPad On 8 Mar 2012, at 00:13, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > O

Re: [Simh] simh under slackware64

2012-02-21 Thread Quentin North (noisy)
Download the slackware libpcap package from http://search.slackware.eu/cgi-bin/package.cgi/download/slackware-current/slackware/l/libpcap-1.1.1-i486-1.txz/USA Next as root use installpkg -m libpcap to install the downloaded package. You should then have libpcap.so which is what simh requires to

Re: [Simh] What OS was this {HP2100}

2011-11-05 Thread Quentin North (noisy)
It sounds like HP Fortran which is available for simh. You can find tapes and manuals on bitsavers.org and there is a yahoo group dedicated to HP 2000 series on simh. Sent from my iPad On 5 Nov 2011, at 04:49, Ron Hudson wrote: > Calling fans of the HP2100 > > When I was in high school in th

[Simh] HP2100 throttle oddity

2011-10-17 Thread Quentin North (noisy)
Hello all First time post on here, apologies if not properly on topic. As part of a project to get HP Access running using the hp2100 simulator on a plug computer (sheevaplug), I have been tweeking the throttle parameters of the iop and main cpu on my Access setup to get best performance out of