Re: [Simh] load

2020-01-26 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Hello. Once upon a time I wanted to write an operating system for the PDP-11 ;) One of the problems I found was precisely that. I wrote this blog entry about how didn’t I tackle the problem http://ancientbits.blogspot.com/2012/07/programming-barebones-pdp11.html?m=1 The utility I wrote

Re: [Simh] Fwd: V6 on PDP-11 and 4.0BSD on Vax - automated installs now available

2020-01-19 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Maybe you could be interested at taking a look at this. https://github.com/jguillaumes/dockersimh Jordi Guillaumes Pons > El 19 gen 2020, a les 3:39, Tom Perrine va escriure: > >  > I had a few goals for this: get v6 running, learn about SIMH, learn about GCP > and set it up so that

Re: [Simh] Semi-OT: Terminal Recommendations for use with SIMH

2019-09-28 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
I use ZOC for windows and MacOS. As a plus, it also includes 3270 emulation, which comes handy if you are also an Hercules user. Jordi Guillaumes Pons El 28 set 2019, a les 17:50, Supratim Sanyal va escriure: > On 09/28/2019 01:13 AM, Michael Kerpan wrote: >> but what do people on other >>

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

2018-12-29 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Nowadays, the easiest way to distribute binaries is to use containers. I made some containerised simh images (I’ve not upgraded them for a while though). Details in my blog http://ancientbits.blogspot.com/2016/05/containerizing-simh-bsd-in-box.html?m=1 Jordi Guillaumes Pons El 27 des 2018, a

Re: [Simh] SCSI-Interface for simh-vax?

2018-09-02 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Mark, I’ve got two QBUS interface cards installed in my VAX 4000-200 and uVAX 3300 systems. I think I’ve got no docs though. Would that be of any help (ie, testing stuff on real hardware)? Jordi Guillaumes Pons El 1 set 2018, a les 20:36, Mark Pizzolato va escriure: > On Saturday,

Re: [Simh] PDP for beginners

2018-02-03 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
El 3 febr 2018, a les 3:25, Pär Moberg va escriure: > I am looking to put up a PDP-# machine to play with. What machine and > OS should I use. I am looking for simple/beginner system, or as > beginner it got. Also, not *nix, it is still alive and therefore > boring. >

Re: [Simh] Crowther's Adventure game

2018-02-02 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
>>> >>> >> I don’t think the slash is one of the ASA control characters > > It's not. Tim said it -- it indicates end of record. A FORMAT statement > gives the layout for one or more records. The fields separated by commas > specify the consecutive parts of a single record; each / is a

Re: [Simh] Crowther's Adventure game

2018-02-02 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
> > Also, given the FORMAT(/), I’ll also hazard a guess that TYPE did not > automatically add a new line on whatever was printed. But that is just a > guess. > I don’t think the slash is one of the ASA control characters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASA_carriage_control_characters

Re: [Simh] PDP11 on Simh for public access

2018-01-18 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Bryan, the lines I wrote in my previous mail are not part of an EXPECT script, but SIMH commands which are intended to be put in the simulator ini file. Those specific lines work with RSTS 11, if you are going to run a different version you should modify them accordingly. To start my

Re: [Simh] PDP11 on Simh for public access

2018-01-18 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Forgive my top posting, I’m replying with my phone. Consider using GNU screen. It’s scriptable and works really well. Jordi Guillaumes Pons El 18 gen 2018, a les 17:34, Paul Koning va escriure: > Too bad, I thought at least presetting date/time would work that far

Re: [Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 159, Issue 26

2017-12-14 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Hello, Please excuse my top-posting. I’m writing this on a phone :) If what you want to achieve is to login into your VAX from the host system, you don’t need to fiddle with a real terminal (although that can be fun in itself ;)). You should check the alternative network attachments that SIMH

Re: [Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6

2017-05-08 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Speaking from memory, the RQ devices are DU in RSX. The DB RSX devices correspond to RP in simh. Jordi Guillaumes Pons El 7 maig 2017, a les 21:05, Ray Jewhurst va escriure: > Hello everyone, > I am trying to do my first installation and sysgen of RSX-11M+ (actually

Re: [Simh] Problems with telnet and TOPS-10

2017-04-16 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Hello, Try to set the DZ to 7 bit mode: set dz 7b Jordi Guillaumes Pons El 16 abr 2017, a les 3:38, Ray Jewhurst va escriure: > I thought it would be neat to connect my cell phone to simh. I thought I > would start off with something relatively easy like TOPS-10.

Re: [Simh] XServers and Simh (Somewhat OT)

2016-11-12 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Try something like: X :1 -query Add geometry and depth parameters as needed. You must also enable the XDCMP server in VMS (either in tcp services or multinet). IIRC the IP address of your display (X Server) machine must be back-translatable from VMS. With a little bit of luck you will get

Re: [Simh] Announcing CDC 1700 series simulator

2016-07-23 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Outstanding work! One more classical system preserved, and one more toy to play with! Thanks for your work! Jordi Guillaumes Pons El 23 jul 2016, a les 18:27, John Forecast va escriure: > For the past couple of years or so, I have been working on a SIMH-based > simulator

Re: [Simh] So far unnamed project

2016-06-01 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
> El 31 maig 2016, a les 19:09, Ray Jewhurst va > escriure: > > Most of what I've worked with on my own so far is the PDP-11 and the VAX > since they are the closest to what I already know. I would like to learn more > about the other systems like the PDP-10 and the

[Simh] DEC Pro 350 Emulator

2016-05-30 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Hello, Is anyone aware of this? http://xhomer.isani.org/xhomer/xhomer.html Just checked it, compiled it under OSX (with a minor modification to the makefile) and it works (well, sort of… the keyboard emulation is not very good). Jordi Guillaumes Pons HECnet: BITXOV::JGUILLAUMES

[Simh] Containerized simh: an experiment

2016-05-15 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Hello, Perhaps someone could find an use for something I’ve built lately. I have made several Docker images for SIMH ands some freely available operating systems for the VAX and the PDP-11 (basically, BSD and UNIX). The docker images can be pulled from the docker hub, with the following names:

[Simh] Installing NetBSD boot block

2016-05-15 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Hello, I’m playing around with NetBSD in the 3900 simulator and I’ve got my boot disk image full. I have created a bigger one, transferred all the stuff to it (using tar | tar), but I can’t make it bootable. I’ve tried what seems to be the way to do it: # installboot /dev/rra2a

Re: [Simh] Reading directly from console in RT-11

2016-02-19 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Jordi Guillaumes Pons El 20 febr 2016, a les 1:31, Clement T. Cole va escriure: > Will > > Look at the sources to the standalone system for UNIX v7. Running on bare > metal no MMU You should get the idea. > > Sent from my iPad > >>> On Feb 19, 2016, at 5:22 PM,

Re: [Simh] rsx11m46.tpc and simh

2015-10-24 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
> El 24 oct 2015, a les 23:53, Bill Cunningham va > escriure: > > http://ancientbits.blogspot.com/2012/07/installing-rsx-11m-46-from-scratch-part.html > > I used those links and that blog. > I’m the author of that blog, and I have just tried to repeat the initial

Re: [Simh] VMS/VDE: Almost there

2015-10-07 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
El 7 oct 2015, a les 15:56, Paul Koning va escriure: > >> On Oct 6, 2015, at 7:13 PM, Rich Alderson >> wrote: >> >>> From: Zachary Kline >>> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 09:42:36 -0700 >> >>> as far as DecNet goes, am I

Re: [Simh] MicroVax 3900 Networking on a Macbook Air

2015-10-03 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
> > Johnny's comments and suggestions are right on. > > One way to help get you there might be to use VDE networking. Some folks have > used vde for various purposes. If someone who uses VDE networking provides > some guidance we can add more vde specific information to >

Re: [Simh] Off topic: ULTRIX question

2015-07-12 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
El 12/07/2015, a les 13:52, Gary Lee Phillips tivo.ov...@gmail.com va escriure: I keep looking for a way to get a real UNIX going, hence the ULTRIX experiment. As far as I can tell, neither Tru64 nor HP-UX have any Wouln’t solaris qualify as a “real” UNIX?

Re: [Simh] New NIC not recognized

2014-05-25 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
en4 (No description available) eth5 tap:tapN (Integrated Tun/Tap support) eth6 vde:device (Integrated VDE support) eth7 udp:sourceport:remotehost:remoteport (Integrated UDP bridge support) Jordi Guillaumes

[Simh] RT11 dists in RX02 floppy images and SIMH RY support

2014-03-03 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
at address 0). - A directory read error when I try to read them from a running RT-11 5.03 system. I wonder if the disk images are corrupted, or the RX02 support in simh is broken. Has anybody tried to read those images with any kind of success? Jordi Guillaumes i Pons j...@jordi.guillaumes.name

[Simh] DUP on simh

2013-05-28 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
= 470130,,010001 CONI APR, = 001060,,70 CONI PI, = 00,,000271 CONI PAG, = 00,,060002 DATAI PAG, = 500100,,04 Reload monitor [Dumping on DSKC:CRASH.EXE[1,4]] Boom! My lack of knowledge prevents me to investigate further by now :) Jordi Guillaumes i Pons j

[Simh] Fwd: Re: Speaking of cards

2013-05-27 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Brrr... Thunderbird keeps replying to the sender instead of to the list by default... Missatge original Assumpte: Re: [Simh] Speaking of cards Data: Mon, 27 May 2013 17:37:37 +0200 De: Jordi Guillaumes i Pons j...@jordi.guillaumes.name A: Tom Morris tfmor

Re: [Simh] card reader and running commands

2013-05-27 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
add a command to disconnect the telnet session? Right now the only way is to break into TELNET command mode and CLOSE the connection there... Jordi Guillaumes i Pons j...@jordi.guillaumes.name HECnet: BITXOV::JGUILLAUMES ___ Simh mailing list Simh

Re: [Simh] Extended SimH on BeagleBone controls real blinkenlight panels

2013-04-10 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
connected set of LEDs (that one is not very stable because I phased it for the serial arduino version). Jordi Guillaumes i Pons Barcelona - Catalunya - Europa El 10/04/2013, a les 22:55, Jörg Hoppe j_ho...@t-online.de va escriure: Hi Mark, For me also a year has passed ... I'm quite

Re: [Simh] EXT : Questions regarding future simulator development

2013-04-10 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Jordi Guillaumes i Pons Barcelona - Catalunya - Europa El 10/04/2013, a les 23:18, Armistead, Jason jason.armist...@otis.com va escriure: One problem with any attempt to attach/detach devices on the fly is that you have to do it at a time when the OS running inside of SIMH expects

Re: [Simh] EXT : Questions regarding future simulator development

2013-04-10 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Jordi Guillaumes i Pons Barcelona - Catalunya - Europa El 11/04/2013, a les 0:25, Timothe Litt l...@ieee.org va escriure: As for simh; I suggest another escape character, which gives a restricted command prompt, but leaves the simulation running Oh no please. When running the simh console

Re: [Simh] VAX XQ and wireless networking

2012-11-17 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Al 17/11/12 22:04, En/na Sergey Oboguev ha escrit: In the latter case you'd need to find a way to tunnel 802.3 packets over 802.11 or over generic TCP/IP. General approach would be to attach SIMH XQ to Linux tap device on one side and hook tap/tun's other side into tunneling software. VDE

Re: [Simh] Connecting to Ethernet

2012-09-05 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh Jordi Guillaumes i Pons j...@jordi.guillaumes.name HECnet: BITXOV::JGUILLAUMES ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh

Re: [Simh] Connecting to Ethernet

2012-09-04 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Hello, My laptop has broken, so I'm lagging a little bit behind. Could you post the output of ifconfig in the Linux side and a $ show net/tcpip in the vax side? Jordi Guillaumes i Pons Barcelona - Catalunya - Europa El 04/09/2012, a les 1:08, david.d.mil...@att.net va escriure: Sergey

Re: [Simh] Basic questions

2012-08-31 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Al 31/08/12 14:31, En/na Vorländer, Martin ha escrit: Once you've done that, you can connect to any machine in the network, EXCEPT to the host machine that SimH runs on. For that connection, you have to set up a second interface using the taptap method Lennert described in his post. cu, Martin

[Simh] PDP-11 GCC cross-assembler... posible bug... or is just me?

2012-08-16 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Hi list, I've jumped into what seems to be a bug in the gnu binutils assembler. I've already submited a report: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14480 To cut the story short, the assembler does not trigger deferred indirect mode unless the index is specifically written in the

Re: [Simh] Cross-assemblers, cross-compilers: success! (so far)

2012-07-26 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
/download/pdp11/tar/cc11-20061031.tar.gz That link gives me a 404 error... Jordi Guillaumes i Pons j...@jordi.guillaumes.name HECnet: BITXOV::JGUILLAUMES ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo

[Simh] Cross-assemblers, cross-compilers: success! (so far)

2012-07-24 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
://ancientbits.blogspot.com.es/2012/07/programming-barebones-pdp11.html Jordi Guillaumes i Pons j...@jordi.guillaumes.name HECnet: BITXOV::JGUILLAUMES ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh

Re: [Simh] PDP-11 linux cross-assembler

2012-07-20 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
I want to thank you for all the replies. A little summary (so far): - Using the assembler included in 2.11BSD: can't be done. That assembler is written in assembler, and I've not been able to find any other one written in C. - macro11 included in simh: it works, and it generates object

[Simh] PDP-10 timer problems

2012-05-18 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
and all the low-level stuff. Is there any low-level SIMH docs I could read? I don't have a lot of free time, but I enjoy this stuff much more than the stupid IT management work I do for a living ;) Jordi Guillaumes i Pons j...@jordi.guillaumes.name

[Simh] Bug in pdp11 simulator?

2012-05-04 Thread Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Hi everyone. Congratulations to Bob, Mark and everyone involved in this new release. The networking new features are really outstanding. Unfortunately, I've jumped in whats seems to be a bug, present in the final release but, weird enough, not apreciable in the 3.9-0-rc1 branch. When I try