[Simh] HP3000 Simulator

2019-01-01 Thread Robert W.Mills
et console DEL=177" the delete key does not work. 3) Is it possible to get an MPE V/E FOS tape image. I have 10 of the Interex Contributed Software Library (CSL/3000) available but quite a few of the contributions won't work with V/R due to system table changes. Best regards & Ha

Re: [Simh] HP3000 Simulator

2019-01-01 Thread Robert W.Mills
Hi Al, On 1/1/19 4:52 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > Does the simulation support CPU and I/O for a processor new enough to > run MPE V/E ? You have a "guinea pig" here available I you want somebody to try it. Best regards, Robert ___ Simh mailing list Simh@tr

[Simh] Enhancement Request: Additional Built-In Variable

2019-01-10 Thread Robert W.Mills
I don't know about the operating systems used by the other simulators but MPE V (used by the HP3000 simulator) is not Y2K compliant. Is it possible to have a built-in variable, possibly called something like %DATE_YY_DIF%, that holds the difference between %DATE_19XX_YY% and the actual year as hel

Re: [Simh] Enhancement Request: Additional Built-In Variable

2019-01-13 Thread Robert W.Mills
Dave, Thanks for the Date Diff JCW info. I am using the following in my script which works fine:     set env -a DATE_YY_DIF=DATE_-1900-DATE_19XX_YY     go until "\r\n:" ; send "SETJCW DIFFYEAR=%DATE_YY_DIF%\r" I have attached a copy of the 'do command' files that I am using as a thank you.

[Simh] HP3000 Initial Speedsense Bug

2019-01-14 Thread Robert W.Mills
Dave, Is the workaround for this bug, as applied in mpe-1-reload.sim, permanently installed in mpe-reload.7920.disc? Robert ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh

[Simh] [Enhancement Request] Consistency in device information displayed by show command.

2019-01-22 Thread Robert W.Mills
The details displayed by the show command for the DSn and MSn devices are similar. For example: DS0 7575KW, not attached, 7905     heads unloaded, format disabled, unprotected MS0 not attached, 7970E, unlimited capacity     offline, write ring, SIMH format Just for interest,

[Simh] Connecting SimH to a Network Printer

2019-01-26 Thread Robert W.Mills
Hi all, Is it possible to attach a network printer to a SimH line printer device on Linux? At the moment I am having to do the following: 1) attach -n lp filename1 2) run the program that generates printed output 3) attach -n lp filename2 4) !lpr filename1 Would be nice to just run the program