All things said, though, just feel free to ask whenever there is anything.
Johnny
On 2017-05-07 21:39, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Hi.
On 2017-05-07 21:30, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
Thank you very much. For future reference is there a simh to RSX (or
any other OS for that matter) conversion chart for the various devices?
It would be quite handy.
I'm not aware of any. This have always been a bit of a problem in
general, as the actual hardware have other names than the device driver
names, and in some cases the device driver names are different in
different DEC OSes.
But since I think most people should not try and play around with odd
disks nowadays anyway, you mostly only needs the MSCP disks, which is DU
in all DEC OSes, as far as I can remember (except for Unix derivatives).
simh is a different (new) system, with yet a different naming scheme,
which further complicates things.
simh seem to have mostly adopted the Unix driver names for the hardware
devices. :-)
Trying to create a list, while possible, is some work, since DEC had
lots of types of devices...
Start with manuals and hardware documentation. Try to figure out what
device simh pretends, and then read the DEC documentation based on what
the actual device was called at DEC.
Johnny
Thanks again,
Ray
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se
<mailto:b...@softjar.se>> wrote:
On 2017-05-07 21:05, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am trying to do my first installation and sysgen of RSX-11M+
(actually
first of any RSX-11!) and I am follow the instructions at
http://www.9track.net/pdp11/rsx4_sysgen
<http://www.9track.net/pdp11/rsx4_sysgen> and I am having
problems right
out of the gate. When I try to copy the baseline system this is
what I get:
[...]
Whatever instructions you are reading are wrong then.
How about just test that /DEV switch which is mentioned, and you'd
get a list of what devices are available.
MSCP disks (rq and ra) are named DU, not DB. DB is RP04/05/06 disks.
That said, MSCP disks are good, since then you can use any size on
the disk.
However, I'd also set it up as an 11/93, and not 11/73.
Johnny
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