Re: [Simh] nova and screen addressing

2010-01-16 Thread Wilm Boerhout
David and Jan Takle mentioned on 16-1-2010 0:58: > running the nova emulator > I cannot seem to get any terminal control codes to work (cursor > up/down/left/right; cursor addressing; char insert/del; etc) > I've tried setting Dasher emulation and sending Dasher codes. > I've tried setting ANSI e

Re: [Simh] FW: VAX780 ini file ...

2010-01-16 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Patrick Finnegan mentioned on 14-1-2010 20:23: > On Wednesday 13 January 2010, John Welsh wrote: > >> Thanks Jason, >> >> The ini file that I have shown below was correct. >> I was attempting to boot a VMS7.3 vdisk ! ( VAX780 last >> supported VMS Version was V6.2). I built a f

Re: [Simh] Telnet problems

2010-01-27 Thread Wilm Boerhout
David and Jan Takle mentioned on 27-1-2010 6:51: > Using Nova emulator. > Can someone tell me what Telnet client to use and how to configure it? > Here are the commands I am using to start RDOS > > ATTACH DKP0 rdos_d31.dsk > SET CONSOLE DASHER > SET CONSOLE TELNET=2000 > BOOT DKP > > Then I start

Re: [Simh] SIMH, PDP-11, RSTS/E and disconnection

2010-04-18 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Johnny Eriksson mentioned on 18-4-2010 16:59: >> So I have a really nicely-running PDP-11 now with remote access via telnet >> through a DZ-11 device fully working. I can log in remotely on up to 8 >> simultaneous connections (only one DZ-11 set up for now) and have everybody >> working at the sa

Re: [Simh] SIMH future releases / Sourceforge project

2010-09-02 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Richard mentioned on 2-9-2010 18:13: In article<4c7fcadd.90...@bandsman.co.uk>, Nigel Horne writes: I have experience with sourceforge; I'm willing to offer my time and help as an admin on the project's sourceforge area if needed. Personally I'd be happy to see it migrate away from so

Re: [Simh] SIMH future releases / Sourceforge project

2010-09-02 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Toby Thain mentioned on 2-9-2010 18:25: On 2-Sep-10, at 12:18 PM, Wilm Boerhout wrote: Richard mentioned on 2-9-2010 18:13: In article<4c7fcadd.90...@bandsman.co.uk>, Nigel Horne writes: I have experience with sourceforge; I'm willing to offer my time and help as an a

Re: [Simh] LK keyboards, anyone?

2010-09-30 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Nathan Cutler mentioned on 30-9-2010 9:13: Has anyone tried a USB keypad like this one? * http://tinyurl.com/2u6gcxv* It has the requisite physical keys, anyway, so theoretically it's just a matter of xev and xmodmap, right? ___ Simh mailing lis

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

2011-01-29 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Peter Allan mentioned on 29-1-2011 15:01: Brian, thanks for your advise. Changing the value of RTIME has indeed got VMS 4.6 to boot on my emulated VAX 780, which is terrific. I started by setting RTIME to 1000, as suggested and I decreased the value until the system no longer booted. The smal

Re: [Simh] DZ and VH device oddities under RSTS/E 10.1

2011-06-05 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Christian Gauger-Cosgrove mentioned on 3-6-2011 19:22: Hello fellow SIMH users: I'm having an odd issue running RSTS/E under the PDP-11 emulator. I'm using the current version, with the interim corrections added. When I have the '11 running with the VH or DZ devices, if a connection drops and a

Re: [Simh] DZ and VH device oddities under RSTS/E 10.1

2011-06-08 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Christian Gauger-Cosgrove mentioned on 7-6-2011 16:36: Hello again everyone; First I'll start by responding to some of the responses I have received: Mr. Pizzolato: I attempted setting the line settings in RSTS/E. I found it works using the command "SET TERMINAL:/PERMANENT/DIALUP" and because

Re: [Simh] Trying to boot on a Charon container

2011-09-16 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Patrick Renouvel mentioned on 16-9-2011 10:15: Hi all, I did that with no problems in the past. I have a Charon VAX Container. I can boot without troubles with Charon. With SimH i have the message : KA655X-B V5.3, VMB 2.7 Performing normal system tests. 40..39..38..37..36..35..34..33..32..

Re: [Simh] Trying to boot on a Charon container

2011-09-16 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Patrick Renouvel mentioned on 16-9-2011 10:15: Hi all, I did that with no problems in the past. I have a Charon VAX Container. I can boot without troubles with Charon. With SimH i have the message : KA655X-B V5.3, VMB 2.7 Performing normal system tests. 40..39..38..37..36..35..34..33..32..

Re: [Simh] SimH V3.9-0 released

2012-05-04 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Bob Supnik mentioned on 3-5-2012 21:42: Two-plus years in the making! Hundreds of bug fixes! Tens of improvements! Yes, it's the long-awaited V3.9-0 of SimH. Available, as always, at http://simh.trailing-edge.com. Some extra goodies this time, as SimH will be transitioning from this form of

Re: [Simh] EV-5

2012-05-09 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Arpadffy Zoltan mentioned on 8-5-2012 9:47: Hello, Do you have a list of tasks that need to be done in order to have it usable? There is a huge need for a free Alpha emulator that really works well without limitations, expensive licences or obligatory Windows environment. Thank you. Regards

[Simh] Powerful system

2015-02-27 Thread Wilm Boerhout
On my new Raspberry Pi 2 (quadcore ARM), Simh 3.9-0 from the trailing-edge repository gives me 3 VUPs. That is, three times more powerful than the original VAX-11/780. On a somewhat smaller footprint. Details: Raspbian OS, fully updated/upgraded Linux raspberrypi 3.18.7-v7+ #755 SMP PREEMPT Thu

Re: [Simh] 8-bit pseudocolor on modern Windows PC?

2016-01-27 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Paul Hardy 2 schreef op 27-1-2016 om 18:11: Robert Thomas said Have you investigated using eXcursion? It was provided with VMS/OpenVMS distributions on the Pathworks CD. ... Sounds interesting, but as a hobbyist, how can I get hold of the Pathworks CD, or a download of the eXcursion component

Re: [Simh] Panic while attempting to boot a NetBSD ISO

2016-02-05 Thread Wilm Boerhout
DUA1 (the one, not the letter L) Op zaterdag 6 februari 2016 heeft Gregg Levine het volgende geschreven: > Hello! > Okay here goes, I'm following these instructions: > https://www.netbsd.org/ports/vax/emulator-howto.html > > And I'm getting this response: > MicroVAX 3900 simulator V4.0-0 Beta

Re: [Simh] Sounds

2016-02-13 Thread Wilm Boerhout
In the early 80's, I worked on my first PDP-11/44 with RSTS, initially as a programmer. The system manager had a few DECtape reels that could play music when loaded and sped forward. The Dutch national anthem was one of the hits. This was a military research facility, and every time some high-r

Re: [Simh] vax simh and loading file

2016-02-13 Thread Wilm Boerhout
For ftp, you need to load licenses for VAX and UCX first. Catch-22. There are two ways to load the initial set of licenses. I have used them both. 1. Start simh, boot your VAX, connect to the VAX OPA0 console terminal, start a EDIT /TPU session and paste from your host terminal. 2. The Micr

Re: [Simh] vax simh and loading file

2016-02-13 Thread Wilm Boerhout
For ftp, you need to load licenses for VAX and UCX first. Catch-22. There are two ways to load the initial set of licenses. I have used them both. 1. Start simh, boot your VAX, connect to the VAX OPA0 console terminal, start a EDIT /TPU session and paste from your host terminal. 2. The Micr

Re: [Simh] vax simh and loading file

2016-02-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Exactly. The only thing that simh adds to this process is the "set cr reset" command to prompt the card reader (driver?). So on simh, the flow control would be: 1. get your "card deck" in a file on the host 2. boot simh with the cr device attached to said file 3. boot your VAX 4. log in, then C

[Simh] simh on RaspBerry Pi

2016-02-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Please check out my post on running a VAXcluster on Raspberry Pi's https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/vaxcluster-raspberry-pi-wilm-boerhout /Wilm ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh

Re: [Simh] simh on RaspBerry Pi

2016-02-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Will Senn schreef op 15-2-2016 om 14:26 [snip] Are you documenting the setup process for your endeavors, or just blogging about the result? I think it would be interesting to see how you clustered those Pi Vaxen as much as to know it was possible. I've got a few Pi around looking for somethin

Re: [Simh] Console floppy and VAX 780

2016-02-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Zachary Kline schreef op 15-2-2016 om 14:38: Hi, I’m trying to boot http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/DEC/vax/vms/BB-D782B-BE__VMS_V1.5_1600.zip, mostly for interest’s sake. I presume this is an installation tape of some sort. I’ve tried on the VaxSserver 3900 simulator, but always seem

Re: [Simh] simh on RaspBerry Pi

2016-02-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Will Senn schreef op 15-2-2016 om 15:09: [snip] As soon as I get home again (may be in a few days), I can post the simh ini file(s), my /etc/rc.local which implements the tun/tap stuff, as well as VMS MODPARAMS.DAT. That is as far as I will go in documenting. Making it work and stumbling along

Re: [Simh] simh on RaspBerry Pi

2016-02-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Will Senn schreef op 15-2-2016 om 15:09: Thanks. I look forward to seeing the .ini's and rc.local, etc. I come at it the other way around. I know Linux/Mac OS X/FreeBSD quite well, but know next to nothing about VMS (I know a bit about VAX because of its relationship to PDP-11, which I've been

Re: [Simh] installing VMS 1.5

2016-02-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
William Pechter schreef op 15-2-2016 om 15:54: [snip] Having installed 2.x back in the day -- IIRC you would need to get a VMS machine running with DSC (disk save and compress) running on it and use that to restore the system. It might be possible to build bootable DSC on an RL pack on a diff

[Simh] Computer History Museum

2016-02-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
This summer, I plan to visit the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. The idea is mainly to drool on PDP's and VAXes of course. Do any of you know of some not-on-the-regular-menu stuff I could ask for (maybe in advance) to enhance my experience? /Wilm ___

Re: [Simh] simh on RaspBerry Pi

2016-02-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Paul Koning schreef op 15-2-2016 om 16:15: [snip] There are three parts to a successful setup: 1. Since each Pi has only one Ethernet interface, make sure you use a wired connection (wireless isn't real Ethernet) Well, Wireless is 802.11 which indeed isn't 802.3 / Ethernet. But that's not

Re: [Simh] simh on RaspBerry Pi

2016-02-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
What he said :-) Op ma 15 feb. 2016 om 20:47 schreef Thomas Merritt > > > On Feb 15, 2016, at 8:37 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > > > On 2016-02-15 16:15, Paul Koning wrote: > >> > >>> On Feb 15, 2016, at 9:01 AM, Wilm Boerhout > wrote: > &

Re: [Simh] vax simh and loading file

2016-02-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
What error? What versipn of simh? Op ma 15 feb. 2016 om 20:53 schreef Bill Cunningham > > > - Original Message - > *From:* Wilm Boerhout > *To:* simh@trailing-edge.com > *Sent:* Monday, February 15, 2016 3:42 AM > *Subject:* Re: [Simh] vax simh and loading file

Re: [Simh] VAX/VMS

2016-02-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Zane Healy schreef op 15-2-2016 om 18:20: [snip] There are plenty of good VAX and VMS manuals out there, including the documentation set. Check eBay and abebooks.com. The last version of VMS that will run on a VAX is v7.3. Zane More precisely, V7.3 will run on *any* VAX, including the prima

Re: [Simh] simh on RaspBerry Pi

2016-02-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Zane Healy schreef op 15-2-2016 om 18:23: [snip] It looks like a good replacement for my VAXstation 3100, but not such a great one for the VAXstation 4000/60. OTOH, the reduced power, size, and noise make this an attractive idea. I’ve been meaning to try the original for emulating a PDP-10 a

[Simh] SIMH VAXcluster on Raspberry Pi - some crucial files

2016-02-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Below, as promised, some crucial files that I used to bring up my PiCluster. YMMV. You could meke all Pi's and VAXen in the cluster identical, just changing node names and network (MAC,DECnet,IP) addresses. /Wilm = Raspbina wheezy/jessie /etc/rc.local = #!/bin/sh -e # This script is e

Re: [Simh] VAX/VMS

2016-02-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Ethan Dicks schreef op 16-2-2016 om 08:18: On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:57 AM, Wilm Boerhout wrote: More precisely, V7.3 will run on *any* VAX, including the primal VAX-11/780. This level of backwards compatibility is unique. I'm sure 7.3 has a very broad list of what it runs on

[Simh] VAX-11/780 model case

2016-02-16 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Several people have asked me on and off the list about the VAX-11/780 model case that is shown in one of my posts. Althought it is not -as I believed earlier- one of a kind, the origins are unknown to me. It is an aluminum profile at the core, the panels are covered with pre-printed adhesive.

Re: [Simh] VAX/VMS

2016-02-16 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Johnny Billquist schreef op 16-2-2016 om 12:49: No, it is not. Talk to IBM about S/360... :-) And there are some VAXen on which V7.3 will definitely not run. How about rtVAX for example. I stand corrected. Please note that I had a marketing job once. It sticks...

Re: [Simh] pdp11 and unix

2016-02-29 Thread Wilm Boerhout
li...@openmailbox.org schreef op 29-2-2016 om 07:21: On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 17:32:19 -0500 Paul Koning wrote: Decimal did show up at times even into the 1960s, for example in the IBM 1620. But it never made all that much sense; converting between binary and decimal is quite easy even in those ve

[Simh] MicroVAX II time across boots

2016-04-11 Thread Wilm Boerhout
How does a real MicroVAX II preserve its time across boots? How is this implemented in simh MicroVAX II? i.e. what virtual device should I attach to a file so that the time is preserved in VMS? My configuration (below) does not preserve the time (VMS V7.3 fully patched) Thanks, /Wilm --- simh

Re: [Simh] MicroVAX II time across boots

2016-04-11 Thread Wilm Boerhout
ox is also in that chip. -- R Den 2016-04-11 kl. 14:33, skrev Wilm Boerhout: How does a real MicroVAX II preserve its time across boots? How is this implemented in simh MicroVAX II? i.e. what virtual device should I attach to a file so that the time is preserved in VMS? My configuration (below

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: MicroVAX II time across boots

2016-04-11 Thread Wilm Boerhout
ystem time. Once a year or so, you have to issue a “$ SET TIME” command in VMS with no parameters to cause VMS to rewrite the base time stamp in the OS file. The next reboot should not prompt for system time. Dave *From:*Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] *On Behalf Of *Wilm Boer

Re: [Simh] MicroVAX II time across boots

2016-04-11 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Mark Pizzolato schreef op 11-4-2016 om 18:53: 1)confirm that you’re using recent code from the master branch of the github repo: https://github.com/simh/simh downloaded and built on March 26. 2)Provide the output produced while building your simulator I did not save this. Build was "Uneve

Re: [Simh] Unable to locate boot file

2016-06-20 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Trying to outsmart AUTOGEN and CLUSTER_CONFIG is never a good idea. After the disk image transfer, you are no longer running a 6220, but a 3900. After the disk image transfer and first (minimal) boot, you should AUTOGEN and, as you found out, NETCONFIG. Then your cluster boot master should be O

Re: [Simh] Unable to locate boot file

2016-06-21 Thread Wilm Boerhout
tic information out of the VAX 4000-300 when it tries to do a network boot? Thanks, Daniel *From:* Simh on behalf of Wilm Boerhout *Sent:* Tuesday, June 21, 2016 1:42 AM *To:* simh@trailing-edge.com *Subject:* Re: [

Re: [Simh] XServers and Simh (Somewhat OT)

2016-11-14 Thread Wilm Boerhout
eXcursion for Windows is not free. It was licensed as part of the Pathworks Client License. But -apart from me, obviously- knows that nowadays? And who is alive to hunt license violations. Still... * **/Wilm* Robert Thomas schreef op 14-11-2016 om 15:34: We serve X-Windows from SIMH VAX runni

Re: [Simh] VAX memory

2017-01-19 Thread Wilm Boerhout
gérard Calliet schreef op 19-1-2017 om 21:25: Hello, I use simh to emulate a VAX. It seems I have a strange issue. I have a process which use a huge number of logical names. So it uses memory. With a physical VAX of 128m it was difficult but possible. I use the same system disk (upgraded from

[Simh] Raspberry Pi VAXcluster [was: Re: HSC vs UDA/QDA]

2017-03-11 Thread Wilm Boerhout
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mixed-architecture-openvms-cluster-wilm-boerhout The LAVC cluster is still running today, and will survive individual systems missing (even the one voting member) when I upgrade Raspbian OS and/or SIMH itself. /Wilm ___

Re: [Simh] Raspberry Pi VAXcluster [was: Re: HSC vs UDA/QDA]

2017-03-11 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Johnny Billquist schreef op 11-3-2017 om 13:09: On 2017-03-11 11:58, Wilm Boerhout wrote: Paul Koning schreef op 9-3-2017 om 23:59: On Mar 9, 2017, at 12:15 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: On Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at 11:50 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: ... When Matt Burke initially was working

Re: [Simh] VAX 8200

2017-03-17 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Gary Lee Phillips schreef op 17-3-2017 om 16:54: Ethan Dicks mailto:ethan.di...@gmail.com>> wrote: >That's earlier than is possible... the model was introduced in Jan, >1986. Don't know date of first ship. Well I did say "around 1985 or so." After 30+ years, I'd say that was a pretty close gu

Re: [Simh] VAX 8200

2017-03-17 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Paul Koning schreef op 17-3-2017 om 17:05: [snip] More in general, if drive B wont' read tapes written by drive A, the fault could be at either end (or both). It could even be in the standard -- all too many standards, for example a whole lot of modern network protocol standards, permit implem

Re: [Simh] EXT : VAX SDL support?

2017-03-21 Thread Wilm Boerhout
I brought up the VMS V4.7 + VWS 3.2 software as per Tony's recent instructions. It is running quite nicely on my Windows10/MinGW laptop. DEClander brings back sweet memories :-) However, I'm struggling with keyboard mapping in the Workstation environment. The VWS software only lmows about VT

Re: [Simh] EXT : VAX SDL support?

2017-03-21 Thread Wilm Boerhout
I don't know what happened. Below is the complete message/question. Wilm Boerhout schreef op 21-3-2017 om 09:34: I brought up the VMS V4.7 + VWS 3.2 software as per Tony's recent instructions. It is running quite nicely on my Windows10/Cygwin laptop. DEClander brings back swee

Re: [Simh] performance issues vax / simh / openvms / itanium

2017-04-24 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Does The compiler generate simh code that causes alignment faults when simh executies? A notorious source of bad performance on early Itanium ports. /Wilm Op ma 24 apr. 2017 om 14:22 schreef gérard Calliet < gerard.call...@pia-sofer.fr> > Hello, > > I have a VAX emulated with simh compiled and ru

Re: [Simh] VMS 1.5 installable?

2017-10-17 Thread Wilm Boerhout
John Forecast schreef op 17-10-2017 om 22:27: [Snip] I don’t think you’ll be able to get early versions of VMS running on SIMH. A lot (almost all?) of the utilities run in PDP-11 compatibility mode which, as far as I can see, is not supported by the 11/780 emulator. [Snip] I beg to differ.

Re: [Simh] VMS 1.5 installable?

2017-10-18 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Luca Sironi schreef op 18-10-2017 om 10:36: 2017-10-17 23:42 GMT+03:00 Wilm Boerhout <mailto:wboerh...@gmail.com>>: See also my blog on https://vxcompany.com/2016/02/13/a-working-vax-11780-revisited/ <https://vxcompany.com/2016/02/13/a-working-vax-11780-rev

Re: [Simh] VMS 1.5 installable?

2017-10-18 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Matt Burke schreef op 17-10-2017 om 23:17: You may also want to try VAX/VMS 1.0 (or as close as you can get to it): http://www.9track.net/vms/BB-D782A-BE.zip This is not taken from an original tape. It's something I reconstructed from a disk containing early VAX/VMS source and binaries. The dat

Re: [Simh] VMS 1.5 installable?

2017-10-18 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Gregg Levine schreef op 18-10-2017 om 15:39: Hello! Matt I just tried to visit that location. It worked the first time. And then going to the portion for the DECUS spot I get a complaint from my browser. And then trying to log in anonymously, it rejected it. Finally going back to that link it pro

Re: [Simh] VMS 1.5 installable?

2017-10-20 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Matt Burke schreef op 17-10-2017 om 23:17: You may also want to try VAX/VMS 1.0 (or as close as you can get to it): http://www.9track.net/vms/BB-D782A-BE.zip This is not taken from an original tape. It's something I reconstructed from a disk containing early VAX/VMS source and binaries. The dat

Re: [Simh] VMS 1.5 installable?

2017-10-25 Thread Wilm Boerhout
alone backup on a disk image, I need DSC to read the VMS 1.5 tape (don't I?) which is the only reason that I was trying to get VMS 3.0 working in the first place. Cheers Peter Allan On 20 October 2017 at 09:43, Wilm Boerhout <mailto:wboerh...@gmail.com>> wrote: Matt Bur

[Simh] incomplete messages

2017-10-25 Thread Wilm Boerhout
I have no idea why my messages appear truncated on the list. Or do they? I'm using Thunderbird Mail agent to compose and send them. Anyone have an idea? *Wilm* ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/li

Re: [Simh] incomplete messages

2017-10-25 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Paul Koning schreef op 25-10-2017 om 15:00: On Oct 25, 2017, at 8:40 AM, Wilm Boerhout wrote: I have no idea why my messages appear truncated on the list. Or do they? They look complete to me. paul Thanks. They sometime appear trunctaed when I look at it with Thunderbird mail

Re: [Simh] VMS 1.5 installable?

2017-11-05 Thread Wilm Boerhout
on? > > > > Cheers > > > > Peter Allan > > > > > > On 25 October 2017 at 14:08, Peter Allan > > wrote: > > > > > Thanks Wilm, I will try that out. I doubt I would have thought of > > > using a TS11 rather than a TE16 without

Re: [Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 166, Issue 12

2017-11-05 Thread Wilm Boerhout
And it is DSC2, not VMS Backup that is used for the restore, since V1.x distros were in that format. /Wilm Johnny Billquist schreef op 6-11-2017 om 01:19: On 2017-11-06 00:39, Paul Koning wrote: On Nov 5, 2017, at 5:48 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: Ah. That sound like a simh problem. The

Re: [Simh] Raspberry Pi 3 with tun/tap causes XQ to fail

2017-11-13 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Jeremy Begg schreef op 13-11-2017 om 11:03: Hi, I am trying to get SIMH up and running on the ethernet interface of a Raspberry Pi 3. I have followed the intructions in 0readme_ethernet.txt, installing the libpcap-dev, bridge-utils and uml-utilities packages before building SIMH itself. I just

Re: [Simh] Raspberry Pi 3 with tun/tap causes XQ to fail

2017-11-13 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Jeremy Begg schreef op 13-11-2017 om 13:38: Hi Wilm, Thank you for the prompt reply. On 13 Nov 2017, at 9:43 PM, Wilm Boerhout wrote: Jeremy Begg schreef op 13-11-2017 om 11:03: Hi, I am trying to get SIMH up and running on the ethernet interface of a Raspberry Pi 3. I have followed the

Re: [Simh] Raspberry Pi 3 with tun/tap causes XQ to fail

2017-11-13 Thread Wilm Boerhout
. Regards, Jeremy Begg On 13 Nov 2017, at 11:13 PM, Wilm Boerhout <mailto:wboerh...@gmail.com>> wrote: Jeremy Begg schreef op 13-11-2017 om 13:38: Hi Wilm, Thank you for the prompt reply. On 13 Nov 2017, at 9:43 PM, Wilm Boerhout wrote: Jeremy Begg schreef op 13-11-2017 om 11:03

Re: [Simh] Raspberry Pi 3 with tun/tap causes XQ to fail

2017-11-13 Thread Wilm Boerhout
paulhar...@btinternet.com schreef op 13-11-2017 om 15:33: A couple of points: 1) The ?53 self test error might be a red herring – I intermittently get ?53 2 errors on both Windows (Intel) and Raspbian (pi 3) when starting the VAX emulation under SIMH. I think it is something to do with the c

Re: [Simh] DECnet-DOS

2017-11-18 Thread Wilm Boerhout
I am about to become the owner of a VAXmate. This set (disk images) would be very useful to me! /Wilm 2017-11-18 0:51 GMT+01:00 Larry Baker : > Al, > > I have the following collection of manuals and floppies for DECnet-DOS and > PATHWORKS for DOS, if they are of any use to you. Otherwise, I'll

Re: [Simh] DECnet-DOS

2017-11-20 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Wilm Boerhout schreef op 18-11-2017 om 10:54: I am about to become the owner of a VAXmate. This set (disk images) would be very useful to me! [snip] I *have* become the owner of a VAXmate, with expansion box (RD32 disk). I also have downloaded Volume I of the Technical Reference Manual from

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: C9.io

2017-12-02 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Raspberry Pi. One to run simh behind my router/firewall, another one to provide an OpenVPN server for access from the outside. You cannot get more (performance) for less (money/power) Op za 2 dec. 2017 om 01:48 schreef Jordi Guillaumes Pons < j...@jordi.guillaumes.name> > > On 1 Dec 2017, at 21:47

Re: [Simh] Install VAX/VMS 4.4 on a simulated VAX-11/780

2018-03-26 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Clem Cole schreef op 25-3-2018 om 23:23: A small suggestion...   while you can probably get the 780 to recognize and support a TU58, booting from it may be difficult (I did not find it mentioned in any SDP or other doc).   The 780 family has a dedicated PDP-11 with RX floppy drives that runs as

Re: [Simh] pakgen.c - VMS License Key Generator

2018-08-01 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Please remove the illegal software — what Tim said. /Wilm Op di 31 jul. 2018 om 14:58 schreef Timothe Litt > The code that was posted is inappropriate, and should be removed from the > list archives. > > VMS has not been abandoned, and this group is not in the business of > stealing IP. > > Ther

[Simh] MicroVAX II diagnostics tape retrieved

2018-10-24 Thread Wilm Boerhout
I found a TK50 cartridge with label -- AQ-GL5AC-DN MF1603 MVII DIAG CUST TK50 Copyright 1985 Digital Equipment Corp. -- and thought it might be useful to someone in the community. It appears to have been stored adequately. I am now looking for a

[Simh] VAXELN, rtVAX-1000, WTC, time

2018-12-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
I'm trying to get my head around VAXELN and system time. Before I cry "Wolf" and accuse any innocent program(mer) of instruction obstruction, I want to know how things are supposed to work here (i.e. as on a real rtVAX with VAXELN) I have built a VAXELN system image and can download this into

Re: [Simh] MicroVAX II diagnostics tape retrieved

2018-12-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Johnny Billquist schreef op 25-10-2018 om 22:44: On 2018-10-25 22:11, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2018-10-24 15:58, Wilm Boerhout wrote: I found a TK50 cartridge with label -- AQ-GL5AC-DN MF1603 MVII DIAG CUST TK50 Copyright 1985 Digital Equipment Corp

Re: [Simh] VAXELN, rtVAX-1000, WTC, time

2018-12-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Mark Pizzolato schreef op 15-12-2018 om 19:10: Hi Wilm, On Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 3:45 AM, Wilm Boerhout wrote: I'm trying to get my head around VAXELN and system time. Before I cry "Wolf" and accuse any innocent program(mer) of instruction obstruction, I want to know

Re: [Simh] VAXELN, rtVAX-1000, WTC, time

2018-12-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Mark Pizzolato schreef op 15-12-2018 om 21:42: On Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 12:09 PM, Wilm Boerhout wrote: [...] DBG(1041144)> CLK REG: todr_rd(ROM) - TODR=0xC3AA5B84 This line ^^^ and all above it are done by the MicroVAX 3900 boot ROM and have nothing to do with ELN. DBG(7056

Re: [Simh] VAXELN, rtVAX-1000, WTC, time

2018-12-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
The few actual reads of the TODR during ELN's execution are returning low values (since nothing actually set the clock yet). Do you get the same result if you don't attach the CLK device? If the result is the same, then it would seem that ELN doesn't care to use the hardware clock for much o

Re: [Simh] VAXELN clock

2018-12-16 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Bob Supnik schreef op 15-12-2018 om 23:44: [snip] So I'd like to see what the behavior is the clock file attached. Or you can post a pointer to the disk image you're using, and I'll try it on 3.10. I saw the ELN kits on 9track.net, but I don't know which one to use. /Bob Files are

Re: [Simh] MicroVAX II diagnostics tape retrieved

2018-12-16 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Johnny Billquist schreef op 15-12-2018 om 14:11: [snip] I have finally been able to investigate the tape I acquired, and am sorry to say that the tape broke after the first load. I opened up the cartridge, and apart from the break about a foot from the leader, a section in the middle looks "cr

Re: [Simh] VAXELN clock

2018-12-17 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Bob Supnik schreef op 17-12-2018 om 02:06: Sorry I wasn't clear. If you want me to investigate this, I need the MicroVAX 3900 environment you mentioned. I didn't write the MicroVAX II or rtVAX simulators. I prefer to work with my own code and in my own environment (3.10). Instead, you can jus

Re: [Simh] Transferring the licence file to the VAX emulator

2018-12-17 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Brian schreef op 17-12-2018 om 14:28 [snip] I really don't want to have to enter all the licence data interactively, or fix a couple of thousand line endings in the editor! There must be SOME way of getting the file onto a new setup? Thanks for any assistance, Brian. What usually works for m

Re: [Simh] SIMH Raw disk usage

2019-01-28 Thread Wilm Boerhout
rich...@richard-harper.me.uk schreef op 28-1-2019 om 09:59: Hi, I have managed to obtain a raw disc image for one of the SIMH emulators.   This is a bootable disc apparently.  I can attach the disc but when I boot nothing happens. No error message from simh? Please provide the log. Digging

Re: [Simh] SIMH Raw disk usage

2019-01-29 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Hi Rich, answering like this is fine. You appear to be using the “legacy” version of simh that is no longer maintained by the current simh support group. Please download V4.0 from github and build the nova emulator on your host platform. Then retry and report. The current simh version has extend

Re: [Simh] Mounting and Unmounting CD

2019-01-30 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Yes. Assuming your first iso is attached in the ini file and mounted in VMS, the sequence is: $ dismount dua3: /unload ctrl/E to halt the emulator and stop VAX processing simh> detach rq3 simh> attach -e rq3 yourfile.iso simh> continue $ mount dua3 yourlabel Op do 31 jan. 2019 om 03:37 schreef S

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: some performance issues

2019-03-06 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Hittner, David T [US] (MS) schreef op 6-3-2019 om 19:46: So from a performance analysis perspective, what are the VUPS ratings of the VS4000-90 and the SIMH VAX running on the RX2800? That's (more or less) the Integer performance rating. David According to www.vaxmacro.de/vvcc.html , the VAX

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: some performance issues

2019-03-06 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Hittner, David T [US] (MS) schreef op 6-3-2019 om 19:46: So from a performance analysis perspective, what are the VUPS ratings of the VS4000-90 and the SIMH VAX running on the RX2800? That's (more or less) the Integer performance rating. David There never was a single CPU VAX with a 89 VUPs ra

Re: [Simh] VAXClustering with Linux Desktops?

2019-04-16 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Ray Jewhurst schreef op 13-4-2019 om 02:53: I have seen articles everywhere setting a VAXCluster using SimH and Raspberry Pis but none with Linux desktops.  I am putting together a small network of 3 or four Linux machines and thought it would be kind of neat to put together a small cluster and

Re: [Simh] Getting started with RSTS - unknown password

2019-10-09 Thread Wilm Boerhout
I believe the 1,2 password is “system” on a virgin system. Op wo 9 okt. 2019 om 22:24 schreef Peter Allan > While I have been playing with running VMS on simulated VAXen, and RT-11 > and RSX-11M(+) on simulated PDP11s for many years, I have never tried RSTS > on a PDP11 - until now. > > I have f

Re: [Simh] Running the PDP-8 SIMH Emulator on Android?

2019-10-20 Thread Wilm Boerhout
cd into the dir (simh) that holds the makefile and rerun the make cmd /wilm Op zo 20 okt. 2019 om 22:15 schreef Bob Vines > Mark, et al., > > I've installed termux and successfully(?) run the first two commands that > you listed, but when I try to run "make pdp8" (without the quotes) I get > ma

Re: [Simh] Making Ethernet DEC DELUA available to RSX11M+

2020-05-31 Thread Wilm Boerhout
I think you made the worst choice for your attach command: wifi is not ethernet, contrary to popular belief. Can you post results when your attach to a real ethernet device ? Wilm Op zo 31 mei 2020 om 17:37 schreef Phil J FIsher < phil.fis...@peejayeff.co.uk> > All > Following Mark P's feedback

Re: [Simh] EXT : MAME and simh

2020-07-01 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Hittner, David T [US] (MS) schreef op 1-7-2020 om 17:17: Why not use PuTTY for the VT terminal emulator, which is known to work with SIMH? What is the point of trying to use MAME for VT emulation? *From:*Simh *On Behalf Of *Peter Allan *Sent:* Wednesday, July 1, 2020 9:34 AM *To:* Simh Trai

Re: [Simh] MAME and simh

2020-07-03 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Johnny Billquist schreef op 3-7-2020 om 13:24: On 2020-07-03 13:19, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2020-07-03 13:14, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: Johnny Billquist wrote: I am not at all sure I agree with that... I think you too should look at the VT100 technical manual and see how soft scrolling is done,