SIMH is very small no bloatware there.
VAX/VMS distribution DVD is under 600MB.
Running VMS systems with many layered products (FORTRAN, BASIC-PLUS,
DATATRIEVE, UCX (TCPIP)) takes significantly less than 1GB.
VMS on ALPHA is also very compact.
Sincerely,
Robert F. Thomas
44 Industrial Way
The potential real revenue stream from VAX users with hobbyist licenses is
small, but HPE should be able to put a significant dollar value on the Good
Will generated by issuing perpetual licenses.
Historically the sales and marketing people at DEC, COMPAQ, HP and HPE have
placed no value on cus
Coming from an IBM 1130 to a PDP-11/20 we had 12kb of core memory, dual RK03's,
replaced with RK05's, paper tape reader, paper tape punch, card reader,
teletype, printer and plotter. At the time we were running DOS. We had
several IBM 029 card punches. There were no online terminals.
We used
There is a DCL command file that purports to calculate VUPS: VUPS.COM
Node Name: xx::Processor Type: HP rx2660 (1.59GHz/9.0MB)
CPU's/Cores:8 Active: 8
VMS Version:V8.4
VMSCluster: 3 nodes.
We have used FORTRAN since the days when on IBM 1620's it was called GOTRAN.
We used DEC's FORTRAN on PDP-11/20's running DOS, upgraded hardware to run
RSX-11M/ RSX-11M+ using the DEC FORTRAN. Implemented various communications
protocols including Cincinnati Milacron's rewrite of DECNET in FOR
Just add a leading space as below:
998 FORMAT(1X,20A5)
TYPE is very old and was a non-standard form that only sent output to the
console device.
Sincerely,
Robert F. Thomas
44 Industrial Way
Norwood, MA USA 02062
N Office Phone - (781) 329-9200
O mail to: r...@asthomas.com
-Origi
We serve X-Windows from SIMH VAX running VMS 7.3. There are many flavors of
X-servers that work. The most challenging part of using such is getting
networking to work on SIMH/Vax. Our experience is under Windows:
1) EXCURSION (DEC provided with VMS V7 through V7.3 on the Pathworks disk -
can
Sincerely,
Robert F. Thomas
44 Industrial Way
Norwood, MA USA 02062
N Office Phone - (781) 329-9200
O mail to: r...@asthomas.com
Python is available on the ALPHA and Itanium on VMS. Information on it may be
found at: http://www.vmspython.org/doku.php
It used extensively by those runnin
Putty is a fairly compact open source terminal emulator. Would Putty be a
viable alternative to Kermit? We made extensive use of Kermit before the
internet existed. It was usually over modems between PDP-11's running
RSTS/E or RSX-11M. We had a lot of command files that used utilities to
turn b
We make extensive use of SAMBA on VMS to enable easy file transfer and other
features with Windows and Linux PC's. The latest version that runs on Alpha
and Itanium is works with few issues. There are some limitations with the
earlier versions that run on VMS, but once one has them running the so
L has a
reset button.
Sincerely,
Robert F. Thomas
44 Industrial Way
Norwood, MA USA 02062
N Office Phone - (781) 329-9200
O mail to: r...@asthomas.com
-Original Message-
From: Rich Alderson [mailto:s...@alderson.users.panix.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 4:11 PM
To: Robert T
al Message-
From: Rich Alderson [mailto:s...@alderson.users.panix.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 4:11 PM
To: Robert Thomas
Cc: simh@trailing-edge.com
Subject: Re: [Simh] Setting DECSERVER 90L to factory defaults
http://manx.classiccmp.org/collections/mds-199909/cd2/network/dsrvdom1.pdf
>
I know that this is off topic, but we do communicate with Decservers from the
SIMH microvax simulator. We bought a replacement DECserver-90L and it is set
with non-standard passwords, so it is unusable.
Anyone know how to force a factory reset? There is no reset button.
Sincerely,
Robert F. T
My first programming experience was on an IBM 1620. I had a chance to write
very simple programs in GOTRAN (an early FORTRAN that ran on the 1620). My
mother was in charge of the company's computational facilities. Prior to the
1620 they had an IBM 730 (?) that was programmed via wiring board
We have downloaded and installed a number of "free" Alpha emulators. The
Charon PersonalAlphaD20 while limited in terms of memory, disks and other
system resources seemed to be the most solid. We have also tested FreeAXP and
EmuVM. We couldn't get EmuVM to work. Both the Charon and FreeAXP
We are on the verge of having to retire our AlphaStation XP1000. We have
experimented with some of the commercial emulators, but based on very positive
experience with the VAX emulation under simh are wondering if the AXP EV5
emulation that is hinted at on the simh web site is available and fun
Rather than fight file transfers prior to installing licenses, use the
following command:
$ @SYS$UPDATE:VMSLICENSE
The command procedure will guide one through the license data entry in the
order and format as on the hardcopy license.
The format for a command file is as below. The various opt
The usual situation when installing VMS on a real machine whether VAX, AXP, or
IA64 was to manually type in the initial licenses as given on the license
sheets from DEC/COMPAQ/HP. Depending on the hardware, operating system version
and license bundles, either one, two or more licenses needed to
.
Sincerely,
Robert F. Thomas
44 Industrial Way
Norwood, MA USA 02062
N Office Phone - (781) 329-9200
O mail to: r...@asthomas.com
-Original Message-
From: Paul Hardy 2 [mailto:paulhar...@btinternet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 12:12 PM
To: 'Robert Thomas' ; sim
extensions to X, but has a very small footprint,
does not use the registry, requires no special privileges and is reasoanbly
fast.
FYI, the Itanium systems do not support 8-bit pseudocolor on their embedded
graphics.
Robert Thomas
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I'm sorry. I've only installed it on Windows. I'm sure others have experience
with OS-X. The networking and other installation issues are addressed in
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/pdf/simh_faq.pdf see specifically:
2.3 How do I install SIMH on Unix/Linux/OS-X?
Ethernet support is available o
I'm sure that I'm missing something, but VAX/VMS runs very well under SIMH.
If you have access to the hobbyist program it is straightforward to install
VMS and Basic. We have a number of very old Basic programs that haven't yet
been converted to Itanium VMS 8.4 that when they are needed (approxima
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