[Simh] Cygwin and SIMH

Hello! Has anyone every gotten SIMH to work using Cygwin? This presupposes that the target may or may not include networking. I am currently looking at the VAXes and a PDP11 to be named later. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again.

Re: [Simh] OSX builds

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Jason Stevens neoz...@gmail.com wrote: ok now that I've finally gotten my hands on 10.6.3 I've built i386/x86_64/ppc7400 builds for everything I tested what I could and it seems to work. If anyone else can verify so that I don't have a repeat of that 10.4.5

Re: [Simh] SIMH on Windows CE

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Jason Stevens neoz...@gmail.com wrote: Right now I'm trying to focus on the CEPC (basically a regular x86 PC) running 2.11 and 3.0 as I have the platform builders for both.. I do have MSDN access and I think I have more in there, but I've really not done tooo

Re: [Simh] http://www.its.os.org/ where are the files now?

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Rich Alderson s...@alderson.users.panix.com wrote: Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:16:46 +0100 (CET) From: Andreas Davour a...@update.uu.se On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Fernan Bolando wrote: I have seen a few posting regarding its.os.org but they no longer exist. this

Re: [Simh] minimal linux

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:21 PM, E. Groenenberg qua...@xs4all.nl wrote: Interesting. I'm currently experimenting with 'ttylinux' (latest build) to work on a EPIA-1 board with a MOXA 4 channel serial card. This release uses kernel 2.6.34.6 and I use the i486 configuration file. I did

Re: [Simh] need help with vax780 on linux

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Dan Gahlinger dgahl...@hotmail.com wrote: I got a DSK file from other user which works fine on their system, but when I try it on my linux system I just get errors, no matter how I try to boot it. I don't know if this is a bug in SIMH on my linux (suse 11.3

Re: [Simh] What OS was this {HP2100}

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 1:54 PM, J. David Bryan jdbr...@acm.org wrote: On Friday, November 4, 2011 at 21:49, Ron Hudson wrote: I also remember if one entered the command why on the terminal the OS would reply with Why not? What OS was I probably running? You were definitely running DOS-III

[Simh] Interesting problem in using the (new) VAX emulation code

Hello! I am trying to use the instructions for installing (and then running) NetBSD with the VAX emulation. Since it seems to be a bit of a SNAFU for installing via CD, I decided to try and make use of the improved networking code to fetch the sets via FTP and install that way. However the

Re: [Simh] cpu idle with NetBSD

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Michael Bloom mabl...@dslextreme.com wrote: Hi Mark, I like the idea of splx(splx(7)),  but it might be good to make the level configurable.  Currently, the lowest software interrupt used on NETBSD is level 8 for softclock,  but conceivably another system (or

[Simh] More on using the latest (stored in git) release of SIMH

Hello! I (earlier today) attempted to install NetBSD-5 for the VAX into a disk as described here: http://www.netbsd.org/ports/vax/emulator-howto.html I created a install file using this as a template: load -r /usr/pkg/share/simh/ka655x.bin set cpu 64m set rq0 ra92 at

Re: [Simh] Build errors in this release (See attachment)

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm m...@infocomm.com wrote: On Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Gregg C Levine wrote: Hello! Since this release of Simh was based on good support from everyone I decided to try it here.  Naturally it decided to break during the build

[Simh] Throttling and this release

Hello! Was the throttle function included as part of this release of SIMH? I finally managed to get NetBSD/VAX installed, but it managed to corral the entire workload of the host at 100% of the CPU. I want to throttle it back to about 75%. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This

[Simh] Networking and SIMH

Hello! Okay so I've managed to install the VDE components and the PCAP development components on my Raspberry Pi. Invoking make caused the build system to choose the VDE components. Why? When both are present I figured it would chose both rather then the one I'm not familiar with. In any case I

Re: [Simh] Networking and SIMH

, time and again. On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Johnny Billquist b...@softjar.se wrote: On 2013-12-06 11:21, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: Hi Gregg, On Thursday, December 05, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: Okay so I've managed to install the VDE components and the PCAP development

Re: [Simh] Test to simh mailing list

Hello! Yes the test is indeed okay. It's Cory's gear that is failing. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again. On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Cory Smelosky b...@gewt.net wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Shoppa, Tim wrote: Testing to the simh

Re: [Simh] ALTAIR thinko?

Hello! Would the Octal reference for $FF be used because one of the authors of emulator would be more familiar with those terms from working with the one for the PDP-11? I've seen the crowd courtesy the VCF and have a box here who's waiting to be restored. Oddly enough I came within a big

Re: [Simh] PDP-11: 330 XXDP listings scanned from micro fiches

Hello! That's an impressive collection you have there. I confess I looked at the contents for one of them at your site, but didn't download any. Do you have a timetable for their arrival at Bitsavers? - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again.

Re: [Simh] Fwd: RL02 USB drive

Hello! I saw both it and yourself Ethan, at it as well. I was more interested in three other exhibits but yes did see it. Impressive. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again. On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Ethan Dicks

Re: [Simh] VMS/VDE: Almost there

Hello! Remember the keyword in my presentation was "possibly". And shortly after sending it, I realized it was for the other one, RTS-8 not OS/8. (That was based on the discussions on that list you and someone else run remember.) However the big problem for me here was and still is, that of

Re: [Simh] VMS/VDE: Almost there

Hello! I seem to recall that on another list, the subject what did DECnet support caused a similar flurry of things to be discussed. Even a partial discussion of that protocol over serial lines for either the PDP-11 using those protocols, or possibly OS/8 on the PDP-8 family was suggested. But I

Re: [Simh] Off topic: ULTRIX question

Hello! Solaris also runs on SPARC. I have it running here on that. And yes sadly Intel based Solaris is still a performance hog. But its nice to know someone else is out there. Welcome to the party Gary Lee Phillips. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time Wars,

Re: [Simh] XXDP V2.2 problems.

on, Dec 28, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > Where's 2.5 stored? I have copies of both 2.2 and 2.3 from the IBIB > site, and the stuff from Bitsavers. But 2.5? When was that created? > And where would I find it? > But that is a good start. >

Re: [Simh] XXDP V2.2 problems.

Hello! Where's 2.5 stored? I have copies of both 2.2 and 2.3 from the IBIB site, and the stuff from Bitsavers. But 2.5? When was that created? And where would I find it? But that is a good start. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

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

terdag 6 februari 2016 heeft Gregg Levine <gregg.drw...@gmail.com> 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: >>

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

commented that its already included. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Mark Pizzolato <m...@infocomm.com> wrote: > On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: >&

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

and this is all happening with the code retrieved from GIT about now. I'm going to update the store and start all over again. (Building them.) - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 11:26 PM, Gregg Levine

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

16 at 2:30 PM, David Brownlee <a...@absd.org> wrote: > On 7 February 2016 at 17:53, Rhialto <rhia...@falu.nl> wrote: >> On Sun 07 Feb 2016 at 12:41:19 -0500, Gregg Levine wrote: >>> In this case it was to try and boot an image >>> of 5.1.3 and it worked. I'm

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

drive 3: RL01, drive not loaded >> ts0 at uba0 csr 172520 vec 224 ipl 17: TS11 >> ts0: rev 0, extended features enabled, transport offline >> mt0 at mscpbus0 drive 0: TK50 >> mt1 at mscpbus0 drive 1: TK50 >> mt2 at mscpbus0 drive 2: TK50 >> mt3 at mscpbus0 d

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

Hello! Okay. I'll set things up for that next. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Mark Pizzolato <m...@infocomm.com> wrote: > On Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Gregg Lev

[Simh] Panic while attempting to boot a NetBSD ISO

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 Betagit commit id: f03bae6c sim> do netbsd-boot RQ1: creating new file libpcap version 1.4.0 Eth: opened OS device

Re: [Simh] Intel's PL/M-86, ASM86 and iAPX-86 Utilities source code

Hello! And I remember trying out an extension to iRMX-86 which would work with MS Windows 3.11. (Or Windows 3.0) It was an interesting idea, but I never got it to go anywhere. It would be interesting to track down the whole business. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature

Re: [Simh] pdp11 and unix

Hello! Let us not forget the ongoing legend that there is one Federal agency all of us want to see out of business who runs older systems, and in fact might be using punch cards for their methods of data entry. And there is still yet another one where the equipment is old enough to vote, and

Re: [Simh] pdp11 and unix

Hello! Version Zero was hand coded on a PDP-7. Included the necessary tools to make the tools, that is the components we use now on the ones on the PDP-11 to write programs. As I understand it, but I believe there are people on the list who know more then I do,and can chime in; the gang at Bell

Re: [Simh] SimH on Raspberry Pi - out of date?

Hello! So do I, but I'm also running Raspbian. It's, ah, causing me to feel rather peeved. For our other favorite, I typically end up building it from source We can do the same, but a lot of us would rather use existing packages. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature

Re: [Simh] Transferring data

Hello! Just SFTP but only if used in the directory that Putty is in. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > >> On Apr 21, 2016, at 7:35 PM, Sampsa Laine

Re: [Simh] Transferring data

Hello! Yes it does. But only if you're using the SSH portion. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote: > > On 22 Apr 2016, at 01:51, Robert Thomas

Re: [Simh] ts10 and mse (my new emulator)

Hello! I agree! - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 6:35 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: > I would really love TYMCOM-X images... > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Feb 27, 2017, at 14:37, Mark Abene

Re: [Simh] VT240, VT340 and DS200/300 HW specs info

Hello! It's okay. How big is it? - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Brian Wheeler wrote: > All of this talk reminds me -- I've got a DS200 in my basement that I don't > need

[Simh] Oddball platform as SIMH/pdp11 host

Hello! Can the SIMH project materials, such as the PDP11 emulator be built and even managed on an Intel Galileo gen 2 ( or the gen 1) platform? This is an Intel QUARK SOC platform leveraged such that it's output and input is in the form of the Arduino families. However networking is already

Re: [Simh] Oddball platform as SIMH/pdp11 host

rm support, and how do they expose the ports? > Attaching SIMH to a hardware serial port is trivial given the right OS. > > -Henry > > On 5 June 2017 at 22:20, Gregg Levine <gregg.drw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello! >> Can the SIMH project materials, such as the PD

Re: [Simh] Fwd: retargetable assembler

Hello! That''ll be a very tall order, but I found this https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/project-whirlwind/index.html It covers some about that amazing for the day idea. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Tue, Sep 5,

Re: [Simh] VMS 1.5 installable?

on Windows, and then tried. I suspect that the site is having a bad day. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 9:48 AM, Wilm Boerhout <wboerh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gregg Levine schreef op 18-10-2017 om

Re: [Simh] VMS 1.5 installable?

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 promptly did that again. - Gregg C Levine

Re: [Simh] DECnet-DOS

seful to me! > > /Wilm > > 2017-11-18 0:51 GMT+01:00 Larry Baker <ba...@usgs.gov>: >> >> 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 pas the

Re: [Simh] DECnet-DOS

Hello! That was me, Larry. Write me off list for contact details. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:44 PM, Larry Baker wrote: > I can't type any more. The floppies are RX31K's. > > Larry

Re: [Simh] DECnet-DOS

Hello! And that was me, Alan, write me off list for contact details. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 9:25 PM, Alan Frisbie wrote: > >> A few days ago someone on the list was

Re: [Simh] DEC Net for DOS and the product on an emulated PDP-11 OS

? I wonder if it would be > possible to run it on FreeDOS? > > Thanks > > Ray > > On Nov 7, 2017 9:57 PM, "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello! >> Has anyone succeeded in getting the DECNet for DOS products available

Re: [Simh] DEC Net for DOS and the product on an emulated PDP-11 OS

t 11:07 PM, Ray Jewhurst <raywjewhu...@gmail.com> wrote: > What about VirtualBox? I would love to shadow you in this project, but I > don't have access to Beware. > > Thanks > Ray > > On Nov 7, 2017 10:43 PM, "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drw...@gmail.com> wrote: >

[Simh] DEC Net for DOS and the product on an emulated PDP-11 OS

Hello! Has anyone succeeded in getting the DECNet for DOS products available from I believe Bitsavers, to communicate with a PDP-11 instance running an appropriate OS with the equally appropriate example of DECNet installed on it? I'm busy spooling up for a big project for the Winter and am

Re: [Simh] OpenBSD on Simh VAX 3.8-1 - Segmentation fault

@infocomm.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 9:43 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: >> Hello! >> Gary which release of Slackware Linux was this? I've found that SIMH >> properly builds on all releases from 7.2 (Which was only released as a Snap >> Shot Disk from the ti

Re: [Simh] DEC Net for DOS and the product on an emulated PDP-11 OS

Hello! Okay. That's one for me. And both won and lost. Now about that example of Pathworks-32, where did you find it? Now my steps are to get a proper PDP-11 emulation up and running, and of course installing an OS there, and even picking one... Oh my! More later I think. But okay. - Gregg C

Re: [Simh] OpenBSD on Simh VAX 3.8-1 - Segmentation fault

Hello! Gary which release of Slackware Linux was this? I've found that SIMH properly builds on all releases from 7.2 (Which was only released as a Snap Shot Disk from the time of the first shows) all the way the 14.1. I only needed to figure out how to update the LibCap library so that networking

[Simh] Raspbian repository versus Github current

Hello! Am I correct in that the version stored somewhere in the Raspbian repositories is too old to properly grok the idea of using a physical serial port to talk to a terminal device versus the current Github one? I'm planning a project, note the keyword, "planning" in that I'd be running an

Re: [Simh] Raspbian repository versus Github current

gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 11:48 PM, Mark Pizzolato <m...@infocomm.com> wrote: > On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 7:59 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: >> Hello! >> Am I correct in that the version s

Re: [Simh] Release of a set of simulators for IBM 7000 series mainframes.

Hello! There's already a very capable emulator for the IBM S/360 and IBM S/370 and possibly the Z900 series members. That is the Hercules-390 one. And it will do practically everything expected, it will run the VM/370 ones and the DOS/360 also the ones you're thinking of. In fact at one point it

Re: [Simh] Terminal Emulator

Hello! Normally I use Putty when it can connect. But Kermit certainly will, and since it is available for most of what you'd want to run inside, it will fully enable loading and downloading of files. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

[Simh] What happened to IDLE?

Hello! I grabbed the sources from GIT earlier today. And promptly built the two I'll need. PDP11 for one, and the VAX ones for the other on a Raspberry Pi3. I even added the options for networking that the README wanted. So running PDP11 I then saw this happen, and the VAX as well:

Re: [Simh] What happened to IDLE?

, shouldn't it be the same as what's shown in my selection? - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > On Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 8:23 AM, Gregg Levine wrote: >>

Re: [Simh] hp alternatives

I agree.. Once again HP is doing something revolting by exiting a valuable arena, by ending VMS for hobbyists, this is indeed something for those of us who do, to look into. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at

Re: [Simh] Is it possible to simulate the first Vaxen I ever used?

Hello! I agree with you Tim, that's an excellent book on the subject. The AM2901 was used in some DEC designs that I know of. In fact in the databook I have here, AMD mentions that some part numbers were themselves designed for those DEC designs. And that some LSI-11 designs found themselves fully

Re: [Simh] Lost PDP-11 OSes?

Hello! Take a look at the list of PDP-11 OS examples on the Wikipedia site. Of those I think I recognize most of them. This includes the ones discussed here. For myself I'd like to track down the last known working release of the R named operating systems for the PDP-11. Up to the user to pick

Re: [Simh] Printing to a pdf

Hello! CUPS, the regular printer management widget on most Linux systems supports the logic behind the print-to-pdf functions that the correspondent wants. There's even software out there that helps CUPS do that. But it depends upon which Linux distribution the correspondent is running. -