Re: [Simh] Problem booting RSX11M on pdp11 (halt at loc 0)

2018-03-22 Thread Mike Stramba
Phil, I assume this is the site ? : http://home.earthlink.net/~n1be/pdp11/PDP11.html I'm downloading it now will try it on my Win7 laptop. Have tried / been successful running it on a "native" O.S (not under VmWare or VirtualBox ?) I.e is the point to try to get it running under VmWare /

Re: [Simh] Problem booting RSX11M on pdp11 (halt at loc 0)

2018-03-22 Thread Phil Fisher
I have checked up some information and found the following. (if anyone wants to see the INI file or the disk image I can send that directly as a 7zip file). Looking at the dump of the disk file it looks like a valid boot block although (as below from offset 0): 000 000240 000406 00

Re: [Simh] Problem booting RSX11M on pdp11 (halt at loc 0)

2018-03-22 Thread Paul Koning
> On Mar 22, 2018, at 6:15 AM, Phil J Fisher > wrote: > > Hi > > can anyone suggest what I have done wrong or what I am missing? > > I am running SIMH 3.9 (from the SimH site) on a Centos6 system run under > VMware (also VirtualBox gives same results). I have

Re: [Simh] Printer on TOPS-10

2018-03-22 Thread Timothe Litt
Setting up the ANF-10 node number is under networking.  It changes device naming (e.g. if your host's node number is 16, LPT0 becomes LPT160).  Virtually all customers had some sort of network, so bugs (such as this one) crept in.  We tried to keep non-network configurations working, but bugs did

Re: [Simh] Printer on TOPS-10

2018-03-22 Thread Quentin North
Through some testing, i have confirmed that the resolution of the printing for me was adding the /device:lpt0 switch. Im not sure where to set up the ANF-10 node number as I don’t have networking enabled on my Tops-10 system. I couldn’t see where in MONGEN you enter much about the printers. The

Re: [Simh] Problem booting RSX11M on pdp11 (halt at loc 0)

2018-03-22 Thread Jordi Guillaumes Pons
> > My only thought was that I was running pdp11 SimH under a virtualization > system (or in crude terms a simulator within a emulator/simulator) and > wondered if that was the issue. But some searching showed a number of people > who have successfully run SimH simulators under VMware at

[Simh] Problem booting RSX11M on pdp11 (halt at loc 0)

2018-03-22 Thread Phil J Fisher
Hi can anyone suggest what I have done wrong or what I am missing? I am running SIMH 3.9 (from the SimH site) on a Centos6 system run under VMware (also VirtualBox gives same results). I have been using Bob Evans RSX11M information from his site. When I load the simulator using mostly his