Re: [Simh] pdp11 - console input with high bit set

2020-07-24 Thread Johnny Billquist
. Which obviously won't help if the software running inside simh then expects MARK parity... Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is

Re: [Simh] pdp11 - console input with high bit set

2020-07-24 Thread Johnny Billquist
ld be able to also properly do MARK parity as well. Johnny From: Johnny Billquist Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 1:37:27 AM To: Paul Moore ; Simh@trailing-edge.com You need to have your terminal set to MARK parity. On 2020-07-24 01:56, Paul Moore wrote: I am trying to run an RK11 diagnos

Re: [Simh] pdp11 - console input with high bit set

2020-07-24 Thread Johnny Billquist
even. Note also that the digits can also be used - e.g. '0' => 060 - is even, while 260 would be Mark (or Odd). Generating the expected format is a function of the terminal emulator. On 24-Jul-20 04:37, Johnny Billquist wrote: You need to have your terminal set to MARK parity.   Johnny On 2

Re: [Simh] pdp11 - console input with high bit set

2020-07-24 Thread Johnny Billquist
turning on the high bit on all received characters. Johnny On 2020-07-24 19:12, Paul Moore wrote: Johnny, I don't know what that means for simh Get Outlook for Android <https://aka.ms/ghei36> *From:* Johnny Bil

Re: [Simh] pdp11 - console input with high bit set

2020-07-24 Thread Johnny Billquist
post the relevant code if needed. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic

Re: [Simh] FW: pdp 11 timing -> RT11 source

2020-07-21 Thread Johnny Billquist
that it should be on the disk in the SIMH s/w kits?, I could not see any source. Its just one rk05 image. I also read you could get the full source if you asked. -Original Message- From: Johnny Billquist Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 6:37 PM To: Paul Moore ; Simh@trailing-edge.com Subject

Re: [Simh] FW: pdp 11 timing

2020-07-20 Thread Johnny Billquist
com] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist Sent: Monday, 20 July, 2020 23:20 To: Paul Moore ; simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] pdp 11 timing Instruction timing as such is not relevant. Different implementations had very different timings, not to mention that speed of memory also makes a difference. Devi

Re: [Simh] FW: pdp 11 timing -->anf10 workstation on pdp11 with throttling

2020-07-20 Thread Johnny Billquist
the network for active Pdp10 Tops10 host systems. The throttling of the pdp11 should be carefully selected to let this function. Reindert -Original Message- From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist Sent: Monday, 20 July, 2020 23:20 To: Paul Moore ; simh

Re: [Simh] FW: pdp 11 timing --> dectapes

2020-07-20 Thread Johnny Billquist
out for a while, so to appease them it went a block at a time and then wait a while. Reindert -Original Message- From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist Sent: Tuesday, 21 July, 2020 00:02 To: Paul Koning ; Paul Moore Cc: simh@trailing-edge.com

Re: [Simh] pdp 11 timing

2020-07-20 Thread Johnny Billquist
do well. I am truly impressed if they did it that way. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay

Re: [Simh] pdp 11 timing

2020-07-20 Thread Johnny Billquist
-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip

Re: [Simh] Design considerations in the J11

2020-07-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
able netlist from the paper circuit schematics and used the KS10 to do computer based IV - a first for DEC. /Bob Supnik ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquis

Re: [Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 198, Issue 16

2020-07-10 Thread Johnny Billquist
Thanks for the additional details, Don. You definitely know more, and were more involved than I ever was. A couple of additional comments... On 2020-07-10 20:52, Don North wrote: On 7/10/2020 7:20 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2020-07-10 14:19, Paul Koning wrote: On Jul 9, 2020, at 10

Re: [Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 198, Issue 16

2020-07-10 Thread Johnny Billquist
otherwise find on an M9312. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay

Re: [Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 198, Issue 16

2020-07-10 Thread Johnny Billquist
The 11/84 definitely is that size at least. And the cpu is just one chip. But it's on a board with some other stuff. Memory is separate though. With the 11/94 you had also memory on the same board. Johnny Tom Perrine skrev: (10 juli 2020 17:55:32 CEST) >Way back in the mid/late 80s we had

Re: [Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 198, Issue 16

2020-07-10 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2020-07-10 14:19, Paul Koning wrote: On Jul 9, 2020, at 10:40 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2020-07-10 04:37, Don North wrote: On 7/9/2020 6:25 PM, Bob Supnik wrote: Yes, the PDP11 Architecture Handbook was a post-facto effort. The J11 was finished; DEC did not intend to do another

Re: [Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 198, Issue 16

2020-07-09 Thread Johnny Billquist
, never sold. Not to mention that the 11/74 in itself was fully implemented, but never sold... Not even the 11/70MP... Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading m

Re: [Simh] pdp11 fails MAINDEC CPU test 14 D0NA

2020-07-09 Thread Johnny Billquist
. http://wwcm.synology.me/pdf/EB-23657-18%20PDP-11%20Architecture%20Handbook.pdf Cool. Someone should tell Al, so he can put it on bitsavers as well... Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softj

Re: [Simh] pdp11 fails MAINDEC CPU test 14 D0NA

2020-07-09 Thread Johnny Billquist
-- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol ___ Simh ma

Re: [Simh] pdp11 fails MAINDEC CPU test 14 D0NA

2020-07-09 Thread Johnny Billquist
not reached this test yet -Original Message- From: Johnny Billquist Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2020 3:14 PM To: Paul Moore ; simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] pdp11 fails MAINDEC CPU test 14 D0NA This is a test that tests something which is actually implementation dependent. So you

Re: [Simh] pdp11 fails MAINDEC CPU test 14 D0NA

2020-07-09 Thread Johnny Billquist
006340 ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books p

Re: [Simh] MAME and simh

2020-07-03 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2020-07-03 14:54, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: Johnny Billquist wrote: Oh, and just for the people who don't want to read a lot of documentation, the smooth scrolling is essentially done by the terminal by changing where the source of the video signal generation picks up font information [...] I

Re: [Simh] MAME and simh

2020-07-03 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2020-07-03 13:24, Johnny Billquist wrote: Oh, and just for the people who don't want to read a lot of documentation, the smooth scrolling is essentially done by the terminal by changing where the source of the video signal generation picks up font information, so that you actually start

Re: [Simh] MAME and simh

2020-07-03 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2020-07-03 13:19, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2020-07-03 13:14, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: Johnny Billquist wrote: I am not at all sure I agree with that... I think you too should look at the VT100 technical manual and see how soft scrolling is done, as an example of a place where the hardware

Re: [Simh] MAME and simh

2020-07-03 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2020-07-03 13:14, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: Johnny Billquist wrote: I am not at all sure I agree with that... I think you too should look at the VT100 technical manual and see how soft scrolling is done, as an example of a place where the hardware emulation can actually become rather tricky

Re: [Simh] MAME and simh

2020-07-03 Thread Johnny Billquist
in MAME, I would say he should fix that instead of trying to get something non-working connected to simh. Johnny Peter On July 3, 2020 12:05:39 AM GMT+02:00, Johnny Billquist wrote: Just a couple of comments... On 2020-07-02 13:16, Peter Allan wrote: Well my request

Re: [Simh] Terminal emulation = MS-Kermit!

2020-07-03 Thread Johnny Billquist
. *From:* Simh on behalf of Tony Nicholson *Sent:* July 2, 2020 10:55 PM *To:* SIMH *Subject:* Re: [Simh] Terminal emulation = MS-Kermit! On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 10:43 AM Johnny Billquist <mailto:b...@softjar.se>> wrote: Actually, xterm can support b

Re: [Simh] Terminal emulation = MS-Kermit!

2020-07-03 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2020-07-03 04:55, Tony Nicholson wrote: On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 10:43 AM Johnny Billquist <mailto:b...@softjar.se>> wrote: Actually, xterm can support both regis and sixel. However, I don't think it supports soft fonts. I have not tested the graphics extensions

Re: [Simh] Terminal emulation = MS-Kermit!

2020-07-02 Thread Johnny Billquist
/listinfo/simh ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softj

Re: [Simh] MAME and simh

2020-07-02 Thread Johnny Billquist
you need to run a cable to a serial port used by simh. But of course, you probably do not want an emulation down to that level, but are expecting to simulate the serial ports... Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psyc

Re: [Simh] EXT : MAME and simh

2020-07-02 Thread Johnny Billquist
the resources named rsx.* And wildcard matching means that things that start with *... are of course applicable, but later entries override the earlier ones, if applicable. (And yes, I have some duplication of information and it could be cleaned up some. The file have evolved over 30 years...) John

Re: [Simh] EXT : MAME and simh

2020-07-01 Thread Johnny Billquist
g list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! ||

Re: [Simh] MAME and simh

2020-07-01 Thread Johnny Billquist
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[Simh] Announcing RPM, a software package manager for RSX-11M-PLUS

2020-06-19 Thread Johnny Billquist
, for anyone interested, please read http://mim.update.uu.se/rpm.htm, and if you have any questions, just reach out to me. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder

Re: [Simh] Making Ethernet DEC DELUA available to RSX11M+

2020-05-31 Thread Johnny Billquist
e basic problem. (There might be others as well, I wouldn't know...) Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive!

Re: [Simh] Making Ethernet DEC DELUA available to RSX11M+

2020-05-31 Thread Johnny Billquist
ce I can provide more information from SimH or from RSX11M+. I hope on this occasion I have provided the correct type of submission. -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading m

Re: [Simh] [PiDP-11] Re: [HECnet] Announcing RPM, a software packet manager for RSX-11M-PLUS --> Tcp/Ip?

2020-05-31 Thread Johnny Billquist
figuration can be so customized especially with the HECnet over IP capabilities. This is really a revolutionary way to handle RSX software installation and maintenance! Thanks, Mark On May 31, 2020, at 9:54 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: Ok. Thanks for inspiring me. I now also have TCP/IP as

Re: [Simh] [PiDP-11] Re: [HECnet] Announcing RPM, a software packet manager for RSX-11M-PLUS --> Tcp/Ip?

2020-05-31 Thread Johnny Billquist
:owner-hec...@update.uu.se] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist Sent: Sunday, 31 May, 2020 02:24 To: Mark Matlock ; hec...@update.uu.se Cc: info-pd...@dbit.com; SIMH ; [PiDP-11] Subject: Re: [PiDP-11] Re: [HECnet] Announcing RPM, a software packet manager for RSX-11M-PLUS On 2020-05-30 22:04, Mark Mat

Re: [Simh] [PiDP-11] Re: [HECnet] Announcing RPM, a software packet manager for RSX-11M-PLUS --> Tcp/Ip?

2020-05-31 Thread Johnny Billquist
Of Johnny Billquist Sent: Sunday, 31 May, 2020 02:24 To: Mark Matlock ; hec...@update.uu.se Cc: info-pd...@dbit.com; SIMH ; [PiDP-11] Subject: Re: [PiDP-11] Re: [HECnet] Announcing RPM, a software packet manager for RSX-11M-PLUS On 2020-05-30 22:04, Mark Matlock wrote: On May 30, 2020, at 10:38

Re: [Simh] [PiDP-11] Re: [HECnet] Announcing RPM, a software packet manager for RSX-11M-PLUS

2020-05-30 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2020-05-30 22:04, Mark Matlock wrote: On May 30, 2020, at 10:38 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: Since I'm on a roll today, I figure I should announce the availability of a new tool for RSX, which I think most hobbyists will find rather useful. RPM is a packet manager for RSX (it has nothing

Re: [Simh] [HECnet] Announcing RPM, a software packet manager for RSX-11M-PLUS

2020-05-30 Thread Johnny Billquist
And I need to make a quick correction to the instructions: When the RPM.PKG file have been downloaded, you need to do the following three lines: LBR RPM=RPM.PKG/EX:LIB LBR RPM=RPM.PKG/EX:RPM LBR CONFIG=RPM.PKG/EX:CONFIG Johnny On 2020-05-30 17:38, Johnny Billquist wrote: Since I'm

[Simh] Announcing RPM, a software packet manager for RSX-11M-PLUS

2020-05-30 Thread Johnny Billquist
1M-PLUS (before V4.0). I would think it should mostly work, but will not make any guarantees about that either. (If anyone really is running such old versions, they should update to a newer version of RSX instead). Johnny -- Johnny Billquist

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2020-05-30 Thread Johnny Billquist
available through ftp on Mim, or also at http://mim.update.uu.se/tcpipdoc I hope people find this update useful. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Re

Re: [Simh] Printing to a pdf

2020-05-26 Thread Johnny Billquist
The Netherlands. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softj

Re: [Simh] xterm and simh

2020-05-16 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2020-05-16 20:12, Paul Koning wrote: On May 16, 2020, at 11:06 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: Sounds like your problem is that TPU thinks your terminal understands 8-bit control characters, while it actually doesn't. If VMS is like RSTS, there is an "8 bit characters&quo

Re: [Simh] xterm and simh

2020-05-16 Thread Johnny Billquist
Oh, and if you are using UTF-8, you are very screwed. Johnny On 2020-05-16 17:06, Johnny Billquist wrote: Sounds like your problem is that TPU thinks your terminal understands 8-bit control characters, while it actually doesn't. Ctrl+Left click should show a menu entry "8-bit con

Re: [Simh] xterm and simh

2020-05-16 Thread Johnny Billquist
he display of characters on the screen of the xterm window, not an issue with the mapping of keys. Cheers Peter Allan ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist

Re: [Simh] vax780 bare metal - rq addresses --> rq registers

2020-05-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
, so you just have to look it up... Johnny On 2020-05-14 02:18, Johnny Billquist wrote: It's a little complicated, because the controller is on the Unibus, and the Unibus only have an 18-bit address space. So the SBI Unibus adapter contains a mapping between the VAX address space

Re: [Simh] vax780 bare metal - rq addresses --> rq registers

2020-05-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
its . ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@so

Re: [Simh] More issues with RSX11M

2020-05-12 Thread Johnny Billquist
sing links. Good luck. :-) Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay

Re: [Simh] vmb.exe - info - source code ? / vax (no O.S.) disk programming

2020-05-12 Thread Johnny Billquist
nts you possess should be more than enough, and then you'll have code in C, which might be easier to read... Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se ||

Re: [Simh] OpenVMS time conversion routines

2020-05-07 Thread Johnny Billquist
tinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2020-04-12 Thread Johnny Billquist
I hope people find this update useful. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol __

Re: [Simh] VMS Hobbyist Licenses

2020-03-25 Thread Johnny Billquist
Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading

Re: [Simh] Ultrix 2.2 and 3.0

2020-03-24 Thread Johnny Billquist
/3.0/AA-LY24A-TE_ULTRIX-32_BasicInst_Microvax3300_1988.pdf ; I do not recall the install process being significantly different between 2.x and 3.0. -Henry ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/l

Re: [Simh] Is it possible to simulate the first Vaxen I ever used?

2020-03-23 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2020-03-23 22:32, Clem Cole wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 3:57 PM Johnny Billquist <mailto:b...@softjar.se>> wrote: The VAX-11/750 used 2901 though... 750 was made out of custom CMOS gate arrays.  The main adder was analyzed as part of my thesis [long story - not

Re: [Simh] VAX 750 and 730 (was Is it possible to simulate the first Vaxen I ever used?)

2020-03-23 Thread Johnny Billquist
___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder

Re: [Simh] Is it possible to simulate the first Vaxen I ever used?

2020-03-23 Thread Johnny Billquist
was pretty sure the VAX-11/780 was standard TTL stuff. Not even any 2901 in there. The VAX-11/750 used 2901 though... 730 I don't know, but I would assume 2901 there too. The 86x0 is way more complex with lots of ECL... But I could of course be confused about all this (as usual). Johnny -- Johnny

Re: [Simh] Is it possible to simulate the first Vaxen I ever used?

2020-03-23 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2020-03-23 19:29, Ethan Dicks wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 1:30 PM Robert Armstrong wrote: Johnny Billquist wrote: The memory bus on the VAX-11/750 is the same as for the MK11 box for the PDP-11/70, and they shared some memory cards. Same memory was used on the 730 too. The 730

Re: [Simh] Is it possible to simulate the first Vaxen I ever used?

2020-03-23 Thread Johnny Billquist
an 256K cards, while the VAX-11/750 was extended to handle 1MB cards, and eventually even had a 4MB card that could be used. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se ||

Re: [Simh] Is it possible to simulate the first Vaxen I ever used?

2020-03-23 Thread Johnny Billquist
inside the cabinet. I strongly suspect Bob is right that it might have been some local joke or hack at Dan's high school. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se

Re: [Simh] Is it possible to simulate the first Vaxen I ever used?

2020-03-23 Thread Johnny Billquist
r. The second number is a generation number, so that you don't confuse files when a file ID is reused, since you can retain, and refer to files by file ID. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.s

Re: [Simh] Is it possible to simulate the first Vaxen I ever used?

2020-03-23 Thread Johnny Billquist
. Said to have been the fastest PDP-8 around. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip"

Re: [Simh] Is it possible to simulate the first Vaxen I ever used?

2020-03-22 Thread Johnny Billquist
_ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se ||

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
/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol __

Re: [Simh] VMS hobbyist license

2020-03-17 Thread Johnny Billquist
. *From:* Johnny Billquist *Sent:* March 17, 2020 6:26 PM *To:* Dan Gahlinger *Subject:* Re: [Simh] VMS hobbyist license Your question was: "What would HPE do if the pak they released were posted anonymously with   the termination date removed?" T

Re: [Simh] VMS hobbyist license

2020-03-17 Thread Johnny Billquist
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Re: [Simh] OpenVMS Hobbyist Program

2020-03-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
ights would expire, so chances are it will get extended again soon... :-) We need a hobbyist member with massive pockets to step up and protect it for all of us... Please. :-) Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psyc

Re: [Simh] OpenVMS Hobbyist Program

2020-03-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2020-03-08 12:42, Bob Eager wrote: On Sun, 8 Mar 2020 12:34:46 +0100 Johnny Billquist wrote: is HPE going to sue individual hobbyists for copyright? I highly doubt it. Why would they? HPE have given hobbyists licenses which will expire, at which point they just don't have a working

Re: [Simh] OpenVMS Hobbyist Program

2020-03-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
did not mean he could just hand the paper over and then I had a license. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is

Re: [Simh] macro11

2020-03-07 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2020-03-07 17:19, Rhialto wrote: On Sat 07 Mar 2020 at 15:55:25 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote: A few examples: I'll be using this as part of a new text case, if that's ok with you. Of course. I just threw together a couple of cases I thought were interesting. It's properly documented

Re: [Simh] macro11

2020-03-07 Thread Johnny Billquist
9:03 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote: In the end, that is a different thing. Absolute addressing is not what Bob was thinking about here... Here is what MACRO-11 does: 1 00 .ASECT 2 001000 .=1000 3

Re: [Simh] macro11

2020-03-06 Thread Johnny Billquist
.=1000 3 001234 X=1234 4 5 001000 005067 000230 CLR X 6 Note that the addressing is still relative. But the actual offset required can be computed by MACRO-11 at compile time. Johnny -- Johnny

Re: [Simh] Various

2020-02-14 Thread Johnny Billquist
st Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive!

Re: [Simh] Various

2020-02-14 Thread Johnny Billquist
-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on

Re: [Simh] Various

2020-02-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2020-02-14 01:35, Timothe Litt wrote: On 13-Feb-20 19:21, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2020-02-13 17:42, Clem Cole wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 11:38 AM Clem Cole <mailto:cl...@ccc.com>> wrote:     I think I saw a card read/punch only once on a PDP-6 IIRC, but it     might

Re: [Simh] Of DEC and cards

2020-02-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
in a very limited, legacy way. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay

Re: [Simh] Various

2020-02-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
rd to get it working on a VAX either. If that was officially supported or not I don't know, though. There were a bunch of PDP-11 Unibus peripherals that was never supported on a VAX. DECtape comes to mind, as well as RK05. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || &quo

Re: [Simh] Subject: Re: something strange with simulated RK05 drive ?

2020-02-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
according to RK11/RK05 documentation, toggling the WT-PROT or the   LOAD/RUN switch (to RUN) will turn off the FAULT lamp. I can't believe that playing with the write protect switch would have any affect on the fault lamp. I think only the load/run switch would do that. Johnny

Re: [Simh] something strange with simulated RK05 drive ?

2020-02-11 Thread Johnny Billquist
And I need to slightly correct myself, now that I've read through the RK11 documentation... On 2020-02-12 02:02, Johnny Billquist wrote: But I did now... And I don't agree with you. simh is setting an error state if you ask for a too high cylinder. And the error is exactly what Henk

Re: [Simh] something strange with simulated RK05 drive ?

2020-02-11 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2020-02-12 01:49, Paul Koning wrote: On Feb 11, 2020, at 7:37 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2020-02-12 01:24, Paul Koning wrote: There is no such thing as "format", in the sense of writing sector headers, on an RK05. Uh... Yes there is. I happen to have written a formatti

Re: [Simh] something strange with simulated RK05 drive ?

2020-02-11 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2020-02-12 01:24, Paul Koning wrote: On Feb 11, 2020, at 6:00 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2020-02-11 23:25, Paul Koning wrote: On Feb 11, 2020, at 3:15 PM, Henk Gooijen wrote: ... As you can see from the printed debug statements, in the function rk_go() the cylinder number goes

Re: [Simh] something strange with simulated RK05 drive ?

2020-02-11 Thread Johnny Billquist
disk addresses don't light FAULT in an RK05. The Peripherals handbook describes it as (a) that light bulb failed, or (b) write current is present without a write command, meaning your disk probably has been wiped by an electronic failure. Sounds like simh does it wrong, then. Johnny -- Jo

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2020-02-09 Thread Johnny Billquist
through ftp on Mim, or also at http://mim.update.uu.se/tcpipdoc I hope people find this update useful. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder book

Re: [Simh] Error in rsx-11mplus every 5 minutes?

2020-01-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
, Jan 8, 2020 at 6:13 AM Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2020-01-08 04:24, Dave Shevett wrote: 04:04:00 SYSLOG -- 70. *ERROR* On scan file open 04:04:00 SYSLOG -- 4. FCS I/O error code = 346 file: DU0:[???,???]SYSSCAN.TMP;1 04:09:00 SYSLOG -- 70. *ERROR* On scan file open 04:09:00 SYSLOG

Re: [Simh] Error in rsx-11mplus every 5 minutes?

2020-01-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
the file fails with this error code. .err 346 000346 (230): %I/O-E-IE.NSF, no such file . The solution is to delete the directory entry: PIP DU0:[1,6]SYSSCAN.TMP;/RM Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip

Re: [Simh] Folks who have old DECUS tapes... look for something for me?

2019-12-29 Thread Johnny Billquist
I forgot to mention: it's definitely worth diving down into ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/ as well... Johnny On 2019-12-29 14:05, Johnny Billquist wrote: I have most, if not all, RSX symposium tapes. I think I have a few RT-11 tapes as well. But I got some of them from Tim Shoppa a long time ago

Re: [Simh] Folks who have old DECUS tapes... look for something for me?

2019-12-29 Thread Johnny Billquist
Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive!

Re: [Simh] Some beginner questions about RSX11 and/or RSTS on simh...

2019-12-28 Thread Johnny Billquist
Oh, and just in case it wasn't clear: mim.update.uu.se Johnny On 2019-12-29 01:06, Johnny Billquist wrote: Hi. Anyone can log into MIM. Just telnet to mim.update.uu.se, and it should become obvious how to do it. Also, ftp works as well. But you need to log in with an actual user

Re: [Simh] Some beginner questions about RSX11 and/or RSTS on simh...

2019-12-28 Thread Johnny Billquist
I DONT remember about rsx11 :) -d On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 5:35 PM Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2019-12-28 21:07, John H. Reinhardt wrote: On 12/27/2019 2:39 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: Oh, and if we're talking ponies, if I could play Empire... one last time... :) :) :) I have the binary. I

Re: [Simh] Some beginner questions about RSX11 and/or RSTS on simh...

2019-12-28 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2019-12-28 21:07, John H. Reinhardt wrote: On 12/27/2019 2:39 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: Oh, and if we're talking ponies, if I could play Empire... one last time... :) :) :) I have the binary. I also have sources, but not for the same version I have the binary for... :-) Runs under RSX

Re: [Simh] Some beginner questions about RSX11 and/or RSTS on simh...

2019-12-28 Thread Johnny Billquist
Hi. On 2019-12-28 21:07, John H. Reinhardt wrote: On 12/27/2019 2:39 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: Oh, and if we're talking ponies, if I could play Empire... one last time... :) :) :) I have the binary. I also have sources, but not for the same version I have the binary for... :-) Runs under

Re: [Simh] Some beginner questions about RSX11 and/or RSTS on simh...

2019-12-27 Thread Johnny Billquist
der RSTS/E in the RSX RTS as well. Right now I'm focusing on finishing up the PiDP11 front panel - hopefully that'll be in the next week, then i'll have my blinkenlights :) Always a good start. :-) Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || &qu

Re: [Simh] Some beginner questions about RSX11 and/or RSTS on simh...

2019-12-24 Thread Johnny Billquist
. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip"

Re: [Simh] simh and RSTS/E - problems with getting additional terminal interfaces to work

2019-12-09 Thread Johnny Billquist
n what I'm missing ? Thanks, Trevor ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se

Re: [Simh] RQDX1 or RQDX2

2019-12-06 Thread Johnny Billquist
...@trailing-edge.com] *On Behalf Of *Tom Perrine *Sent:* Friday, 6 December 2019 13:25 *To:* Johnny Billquist *Cc:* info-pd...@dbit.com; hec...@update.uu.se; simh; [PiDP-11] *Subject:* Re: [Simh] RQDX1 or RQDX2 I saw your note - I also need a Modula-2 compiler. I'm looking for the Zurich one for UNIX/VAX

Re: [Simh] RQDX1 or RQDX2

2019-12-05 Thread Johnny Billquist
, the RQDX1 could only do the RD50-52. C On 12/5/2019 10:08 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: Sorry, no. Maybe I should have mentioned that this is for a PDP-11 RSX version. I have most of the files, but are missing a few.     Johnny On 2019-12-06 03:25, Tom Perrine wrote: I saw your note - I also

Re: [Simh] RQDX1 or RQDX2

2019-12-05 Thread Johnny Billquist
may have? On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 4:18 PM Johnny Billquist <mailto:b...@softjar.se>> wrote: Ok. So I had plans to locate an RQDX[12] during my christmas vacation. Unfortunately, events outside of my control have forced me to change my christmas plans, and I no longer wil

[Simh] RQDX1 or RQDX2

2019-12-05 Thread Johnny Billquist
could pay for the shipping and return shipping, but can't really afford anything beyond that right now. I hope to locate a few missing files from a Modula-2 compiler among other things on those disks, and if found, it will be shared with anyone interested. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist

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