RSTS/E (starting with V6B, that is) recognizes devices based on their CSR
address, fixed or float. It doesn't care about vector rules (except for the
card reader); instead, it probes the device to find out. So you need to make
sure a device is assigned the proper CSR address by the rules and then RSTS
will know it. You can confirm by doing "hardware list".
In the example shown, you can see that indeed RSTS recognized the additional DL
lines.
However.... Prior to V9 or thereabouts (I'd have to search a bit to be more
precise), RSTS/E device support including terminal interface support was set at
Sysgen. You could omit controllers that aren't in the build and those would be
disabled, but if you include devices not mentioned in the Sysgen they would be
silently ignored by RSTS. Note that INIT (which is what does the hardware
display) knows about all supported devices; the fact that a particular RSTS
monitor doesn't include the support doesn't bother it.
So the fact that added terminal lines don't work suggests that they weren't in
the sysgen. If there is a config.mac somewhere on the system that might be the
one from the sysgen and would tell you what's supported. Also, sufficiently
new RSTS systems have a DCL command "show device" which says what devices the
monitor knows about.
paul
> On Dec 9, 2019, at 5:29 AM, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se> wrote:
>
> In RSTS/E, you have DZ11 lines, but they are configured for a CSR of 160100
> and 160110, and vectors are 400 and 410. I bet that does not match what simh
> thinks...
>
> Johnny
>
> On 2019-12-09 11:25, Trevor Warwick wrote:
>> I'm using "PDP-11 simulator V4.0-0 Current", and getting the same results on
>> Win10 and Linux.
>> I'm booting the full RSTS V7.0-07 disk, built by by Chuck Cranor. This boots
>> fine, and I can log in on the simulated console. However, I can't persuade
>> it to recognise any additional terminals. If I use:
>> set dli enable
>> set dli lines=8
>> attach dli 10001
>> Then I get a telnet server appearing on port 10001, which prints "Connected
>> to the PDP-11 simulator DLI device, line 0" when I boot the RSTS system
>> disk. However, there's no response to any input once RSTS is up and running.
>> I've also tried using a DZ11
>> set dz lines=8
>> attach dz 10002
>> and in that case I don't even get the "Connected...." line from simh. RSTS
>> can apparently see the hardware though:
>> RSTS V7.0-07 llama (DL0)
>> Option: HA
>> HARDWR suboption? LI
>> Name Address Vector Comments
>> TT: 177560 060
>> RK: 177400 220 RK05F units: none
>> RL: 174400 160 Units: 0(RL01) 1(RL01) 2(RL01) 3(RL01)
>> RM: 177440 210 Units: 0(RK06) 1(RK06) 2(RK06) 3(RK06) 4(RK06)
>> 5(RK06) 6(RK06) 7(RK06)
>> RR: 176700 254 BAE=+050, Units: 0(RM03) 1(RM03) 2(RM03)
>> 3(RM03) 4(RM03) 5(RM03) 6(RM03) 7(RM03)
>> TM: 172520 224
>> PR0: 177550 070
>> PP0: 177554 074
>> LP0: 177514 200
>> RX0: 177170 264
>> KL0: 176500 300
>> KL1: 176510 310
>> KL2: 176520 320
>> KL3: 176530 330
>> KL4: 176540 340
>> KL5: 176550 350
>> KL6: 176560 360
>> KL7: 176570 370
>> DZ0: 160100 400
>> DZ1: 160110 410
>> KW11L 177546 100
>> SR 177570
>> DR 177570
>> Hertz = 60.
>> Other: FPU, SL, 22-Bit Addressing, Cache w/address, System ID = 4660
>> If I boot an RSX-11M disk, then additional terminal interfaces seem to work
>> fine, so the problem seems specific to RSTS. I saw references in the list
>> archive to other pre-built systems on www.rsts.org <http://www.rsts.org/>
>> <http://www.rsts.org <http://www.rsts.org/>> but that doesn't seem to be
>> available at the moment, so I can't try another build right now.
>> Any clues on what I'm missing ?
>> Thanks,
>> Trevor
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