Re: [Simh] Lost PDP-11 OSes?

Ahh MUMPS, never met it on the PDP11 but did on the VAX, the financial system Quasar (ACT) was written in it. Supported that at 2 companies I worked at tho while it was fast it wasn't so good with abrupt system outages, being the application was never coded to handle transaction integrity,

Re: [Simh] VAX networking issue

Is the virtual NIC presented to the VM set to be in promiscuous mode on the Ubuntu host? Believe it would need to be for this to work, tho I could be wrong as i don't run on *nix, but on winwoes VM's I've used the VM NICs that way and things work. HTH On Thu, 06 Jun 2019 21:52:35

Re: [Simh] Transferring the licence file to the VAX emulator

On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 20:16:19 -, Johnny Billquist wrote: And then I have my possibly very sneaky alternative: TECO. TECO usually swallows and does the right thing for very many things, and if not, it's very easy to correct, and then let TECO write the file out, and you'll have a

Re: [Simh] Transferring the licence file to the VAX emulator

, and then change the file attributes to be stream-lf. Johnny On 2018-12-17 16:15, Dave L wrote: Likely the issue is that the *nix system presents the text file as stream-LF format which VMS won't understand as a standard text file which it would expect to be CR-LF terminated records. VMS convert

Re: [Simh] Transferring the licence file to the VAX emulator

ahh good old ISAM, yeah I wrote something similar on a commodore pet system that I was tasked with writing a hospital lab data analysis suite for in the early 80s. It had the ability to random access the FDD's so it made sense to tag and allocate blocks rather than have to rewrite

Re: [Simh] Transferring the licence file to the VAX emulator

the issue here tho is more that the license file is in fact a DCL script and not input into LMF itself, and DCL doesn't handle the stream-LF files it'll just barf on command line input too long... On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 17:40:04 -, Paul Koning wrote: On Dec 17, 2018, at 12:29 PM,

Re: [Simh] Transferring the licence file to the VAX emulator

Likely the issue is that the *nix system presents the text file as stream-LF format which VMS won't understand as a standard text file which it would expect to be CR-LF terminated records. VMS convert utility would be able to fix that as already mentioned, tho you may need to tell it what

Re: [Simh] Cluster communications errors

Hi Hunter I run an ESXi host on a USDT system and use a USB3 LAN dongle to give me a seperate network for user/management traffic so I can use the onboard one for iSCSI. This was done following the artivle here:

Re: [Simh] dhcp client for openvms 7.2 (hobbyist cd)?

to determine the version do $ tcpip sho ver as to being a DHCP client, can't recall but I've never done this on any system I've worked on, VMS usually is sat at a fixed IP and may be a DHCP server (in a cluster its far better for resilience than winwoes efforts at handling this part).

Re: [Simh] tcpip problem Johnny

Hi Phil not used linux for emulated vax/alpha myself but there are some things you need to set up for the emulator so that you have raw/promiscuous access to the assigned NIC's at non-root level. Info here and in their UG's might point you in the right direction:

Re: [Simh] VMware "internal network" and VAX mop frames

Have you tried not setting a MAC address on the VMware NIC/switches? Which NIC type are you presenting to the VM. E1000 is probably the best option tho VMXNET3 should work too once VMware tools is loaded (E1000 you can get away without or survive if tools dies for any reason). On the Alpha

Re: [Simh] VMware "internal network" and VAX mop frames

Do you have the relevant NICs set in promiscuous mode? On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 09:58:16 -, gérard Calliet wrote: Hello, It's not specifically a simh question, but I hope someone had experience about the issue. I have a VAX VMS on a SIMH on a Windows

Re: [Simh] Crowther's Adventure game

Been a long time since I wrote fortran but IIRC the first character on the output line was to perform carriage-control of the LPT, so you'd have to always have a leading pad character such as a space in order to get the output lines to be correct. Some characters were reserved actions, 1 =

Re: [Simh] C9.io

opening any port on your firewall/edge router would make your IP open to probes tho, and you'd have to be sure the host you expose is secure so that other systems on your internal net isn't at risk. I guess you could place your host and guest on a separate vlan and place that into the DMZ

Re: [Simh] OpenVMS 7.3 and Python

Tried the freeware discs? The freeware v5 has Python 1.5 on it, may do what you require http://www.decuslib.com/freeware/freewarev50/python/ HTH On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 19:01:41 -, Gary Lee Phillips wrote: Does anyone know of a version of Python for OpenVMS 7.3

Re: [Simh] VAX 730 Console Tapes [was: VAX 8200]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 01:01:51 -, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2017-03-16 23:01, Hittner, David T [US] (MS) wrote: What I started with, though, was managing 11/730s in the mid-80s and was optimizing the order of files on the console tape to be in the order they were

Re: [Simh] EXT : Alpha under SIMH

if you take a look at this site you can find the link to download personalAplha ;-) http://jonesrh.info/dcll/dcll_why_i_use.html#VMS_Hobbyist_solutions Also the Idleloop installer info if you'll need it - not recommended for non-hobyist configs tho. I've used both FreeAXP and Charon

Re: [Simh] Why 36-bit computing?

As I recall from way back, wasn't the 36 bit potentially split into 32-bit data and 4 bit offset to allow fast jump to the next card in the deck on a branch? Not that (m)any implemented this, but I seem to recall this from my early days back at ADP 30+ years ago. With the advent of fast memory and