Hi Tom I have TOPS-10 monitor 7.04 running quite happily on simh.
One of things I found was that set cpu idle may not always be ok, but is fine when you have a working o/s. Also I set cpu tops10 - I’m not sure what this does but it means it works. Here is my tops 10 startup script: set cpu tops10 set cpu idle set tim y2k att rp0 disks/t10b.dsk att lp20 printer.out set lp20 enable set dz 8b set dz lines=8 att -a -m dz 2020 ;att -a -m dz 23 boot rp0 > On 25 Jan 2020, at 01:20, Tom Russo <ru...@bogodyn.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 08:17:09PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <r...@sky-visions.com <mailto:r...@sky-visions.com>> flavor, > containing: >> Hi Tom, >> >> While I have not tried Tops-20 on the KS10, I do have versions 2 >> through 7 running on my unreleased KL10 simulator. I am still >> resolving issues, I should be releasing it in a month or two. > > That should be pretty cool. I look forward to it. > >> I think you need to hit ^C after the NO SYSJOB. > > I never get to a NO SYSJOB anywhere. It hangs right at > "System restarting, wait..." > > ^C does nothing at that stage. > > >> Rich >> >>> I'm a new simh user, and have mostly been using it to relive my youth >>> on PDP-11s. But I also had played with TOPS-20 back in those misspent >>> days, and wanted to see if I could have my own, fully realizing that >>> SIMH can't run later versions of TOPS-20 because it simulates a >>> KS10. Still, I am having trouble getting past the first few steps of >>> the install. >>> >>> I am starting from the install document at >>> http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/pdp10/TOPS20/V4.1_Feb83/AA-P346A-TM_KS_Install_4.1_Feb83.pdf >>> >>> I have downloaded the install tape from >>> http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/tapes/bb-d867e-bm_tops20_v41_2020_instl.tap.bz2 >>> >>> I use this "install.ini" file (cribbed from >>> https://gunkies.org/wiki/Running_TOPS-20_V4.1_under_SIMH): >>> >>> set cpu tops-20 >>> d wru 006 >>> att tu bb-d867e-bm_tops20_v41_2020_instl.tap >>> set rp rp06 >>> att rp t20.dsk >>> boot tu >>> >>> at which point I'm greeted with the expected MTBOOT> prompt. I then >>> do: >>> >>> >>> MTBOOT> /L >>> MTBOOT> /G143 >>> >>> and basically say Y to all the questions: >>> [FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TYPE "?" TO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING >>> QUESTIONS.] >>> >>> DO YOU WANT TO REPLACE THE FILE SYSTEM ON THE PUBLIC STRUCTURE? Y >>> >>> DO YOU WANT TO DEFINE THE PUBLIC STRUCTURE? Y >>> >>> HOW MANY PACKS ARE IN THIS STRUCTURE: 1 >>> >>> ON WHICH "CHANNEL,UNIT" IS LOGICAL PACK # 0 MOUNTED: 0,0 >>> >>> DO YOU WANT THE DEFAULT SWAPPING SPACE? Y >>> >>> DO YOU WANT THE DEFAULT SIZE FRONT END FILE SYSTEM? Y >>> >>> DO YOU WANT THE DEFAULT SIZE BOOTSTRAP AREA? Y >>> >>> [STRUCTURE "PS" SUCCESSFULLY DEFINED] >>> >>> [PS MOUNTED] >>> ?PS UNIT 0 HAS NO BAT BLOCKS. >>> DO YOU WANT TO WRITE A SET OF PROTOTYPE BAT BLOCKS? Y >>> >>> %%NO SETSPD >>> >>> System restarting, wait... >>> >>> >>> At this point, the simulator just sits there for hours, never giving >>> the date/time question the installation guide says I should get >>> next. It does seem that the install process has at least initialized >>> the disk image, and if I reboot and tell it to skip all of those >>> filesystem initialization steps, it blasts right to the %%NO SETSPD >>> and "System restarting" steps, whereupon it hangs again. >>> >>> I'm running simh off of today's current git master branch. I have >>> compiled it both on FreeBSD and on Ubuntu 16.04 with identical >>> results (so I am not assuming it's just a FreeBSD incompatibility >>> issue). >>> >>> >>> I see plenty of old references to running TOPS-20 4.1 on SIMH, and no >>> such references to this apparent hanging of the simulator at a very >>> early stage in installation. Has anybody got this running? Am I >>> missing something blindingly obvious somewhere? >> >> >> >> -- >> ========================================================================== >> Richard Cornwell >> r...@sky-visions.com >> http://sky-visions.com >> LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-cornwell-991076107 >> ========================================================================== > > -- > Tom Russo KM5VY > Tijeras, NM > > echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com <mailto:Simh@trailing-edge.com> > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > <http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh>
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