Re: [Simh] Andy Hoffman's VMS 4.x packages

2020-03-23 Thread Ray Jewhurst
So I am trying to get this package to work on as many systems as possible and now I wonder if on the VAXStation 2000 or 2 if there are are any copies of VWS floating around. Simh is I guess is a really good way to handle shelter in place... Ray On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 8:39 PM Johnny Billquist

Re: [Simh] Andy Hoffman's VMS 4.x packages

2020-03-22 Thread Johnny Billquist
That shows how reliable my brain is... Johnny On 2020-03-23 01:09, Bob Eager wrote: We were running V4.5 on 8200s. But nothing earlier. On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 00:03:05 +0100 Johnny Billquist wrote: Uh. VMS V4 will most likely not run on the 8200/8250. But if you did get it up, you will need

Re: [Simh] Andy Hoffman's VMS 4.x packages

2020-03-22 Thread Johnny Billquist
Uh. VMS V4 will most likely not run on the 8200/8250. But if you did get it up, you will need the full AME product installed in order to run RSX software, as these machines don't have hardware PDP-11 compatibility. VMS V4 was right at the time when the first hardware appeared which did not

Re: [Simh] Andy Hoffman's VMS 4.x packages

2020-03-22 Thread Tim Shoppa
I know that later versions of VAX-11 RSX support PDP-11 emulation through software emulation of the PDP-11 commands. Even on VAX processors that don't have PDP-11 hardware emulation. This PDP-11 software emulation would presumably be missing in earlier versions of VAX-11 RSX but I remember it

[Simh] Andy Hoffman's VMS 4.x packages

2020-03-22 Thread Ray Jewhurst
Just a couple of observations and a question about Andy's distros. First, they WILL run on a simulated VAX-11 730 if RAM is set to 5 megabytes. Also, on the 730 all lp behaviour is normal. Now for my question, is my intuition right in that the RSX package either won't run or simply be useless on