Thanks Paul. Now you mention it, I do have a vague recollection of doing Sysgens when adding new hardware back in V6/V7 days. I'll look around for a later version to run and see if that fixes things, and/or try generating my own system.
On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 at 15:04, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote: > 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> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > > > -- > Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus > || on a psychedelic trip > email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books > pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > > >
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