Re: [Simh] Write sector headers to disk

On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 07:31, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > > Hello, > > Some of DEC's disks allow reading and writing the sector headers. ITS' > disk formatting program, SALV (the Salvager), uses this to make a new > file structure on a pack, and to verify its integrity. > > This isn't fully

Re: [Simh] Packaging systems and simh (Was: Systems Engineering Labs (SEL) simh simulator available)

On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 22:46, Clem Cole wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 7:03 PM David Brownlee wrote: > >> Well, Joyent also makes binary pkgsrc packages for SmartOS, macOS, and >> CentOS/REL :) https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/ >> > > xkcd on standards <https:

Re: [Simh] Systems Engineering Labs (SEL) simh simulator available

On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 09:33, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > On Saturday, December 22, 2018 at 1:18 AM, Rhialto wrote: > > On Thu 20 Dec 2018 at 16:03:03 -0800, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > > Since no one ever made the effort to package simh 3.9 which was > > > released in May 2012 > > > > pkgsrc

Re: [Simh] vax idle for NetBSD

On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 at 09:42, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > Well, when I followed the directions you pointed out, I did see what you > had reported. A little deeper observation strongly suggested that the > OS execution flow that happens on NetBSD/VAX during idling had changed > from how things were

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

ends up sending two emails when they should just have waited and sent one, but I've never built simh outside of pkgsrc before and didn't know if it would Just Work It Did :)] David On 7 February 2016 at 14:12, David Brownlee <a...@absd.org> wrote: > On the offchance it helps I've at

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

On the offchance it helps I've attached my config for booting NetBSD-7 on the stock simh-3.9.0nb4 from pkgsrc, and a boot via 'b dua1'. Maybe if you posted your .simh file and the output again we might be able to work out whats up? I could also try the latest git source to see if my config still

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

On 7 February 2016 at 17:53, Rhialto 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 going to need to spend more time on this. > > I think there may have some NetBSD versions that

Re: [Simh] Netbooting the SIMH VAX emulator

On 5 July 2013 23:46, Joel Heikkila jjh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Just on a whim, I decided to try to netboot NetBSD on the VAX emulator. The mopd/dhcpd/NFS server is FreeBSD amd64 and the machine SIMH was running on is FreeBSD sparc64, they were both on the same hub. I'm using the latest

Re: [Simh] Slightly OT: Headless SIMH on Raspberry Pi

On 3 November 2012 22:15, Rob Jarratt robert.jarr...@ntlworld.com wrote: I want to run SIMH on my headless Raspberry Pi, to do so I use putty to connect to the pi and log in. From the shell I can run SIMH just fine. What I would like though is for my session not to disappear if I close putty

Re: [Simh] Throttling and this release

On 7 July 2012 23:00, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm m...@infocomm.com wrote: On Saturday, July 07, 2012 at 1:31 PM David Brownlee wrote: I'm assuming the switching of IPL to 1 and then immediately back is OK for simh in this situation - could you confirm? This is exactly the goal. IPL 1

Re: [Simh] Throttling and this release

On 7 July 2012 07:00, Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [Simh] Throttling and this release

On 7 July 2012 20:36, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm m...@infocomm.com wrote: On Saturday, July 07, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Gregg Levine wrote: On 7 July 2012 07:00, Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Was the throttle function included as part of this release of SIMH? I finally managed