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

2020-07-24 Thread Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm
On Friday, July 24, 2020 at 5:42 PM, David Gesswein wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 01:22:38AM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > > > > > I thought the high bit setting would be turned off if you used set > > > tti 7b or 8b but never verified. > > > > Which obviously won't help if the software

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

2020-07-24 Thread Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm
On Friday, July 24, 2020 at 11:36 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > > On Jul 24, 2020, at 2:28 PM, David Gesswein wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 06:12:17PM +, Paul Moore wrote: > >> Not helped by not knowing what KSR really means. > >> > > > > Keyboard send receive. A model 33 teletype without

Re: [Simh] tools link on web site home page is broken

2020-07-09 Thread Mark Pizzolato
The latest simtools can be found at https://github.com/simh/simtools available as a zip via https://github.com/simh/simtools/archive/master.zip From: Simh on behalf of Paul Moore Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2020 1:53 PM To: simh@trailing-edge.com Subject:

Re: [Simh] DLI losing upper bit

2020-06-25 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 8:42 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > > On Jun 25, 2020, at 11:07 AM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > > > On Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 7:28 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > >> I'm trying to use a SIMH PDP11 "DLI" device for DDCMP. That requires 8

Re: [Simh] DLI losing upper bit

2020-06-25 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 7:28 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > I'm trying to use a SIMH PDP11 "DLI" device for DDCMP. That requires 8 bit > transparent data, of course. It's not working. > > A trace shows that the simulator is stripping the upper bit on received bytes. > The console has a command

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

2020-05-31 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Sunday, May 31, 2020 at 10:20 AM, Phil J Fisher wrote: > The INI file (i.e. the commands) are as below. And referencing an earlier > comment, yes it was stupid to use WiFi -- that was my thinking a real network > would help and not thinking properly. I am reasonably sure that the results >

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

2020-05-31 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Sunday, May 31, 2020 at 9:33 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > Mark... > > On 2020-05-31 18:26, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > Hi Phil, > > > > On Sunday, May 31, 2020 at 8:37 AM, Phil J Fisher wrote: > >> All > >> Following Mark P's feedback and comments,

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

2020-05-31 Thread Mark Pizzolato
Hi Phil, On Sunday, May 31, 2020 at 8:37 AM, Phil J Fisher wrote: > All > Following Mark P's feedback and comments, this is in many respects a > re-submission of a previous poorly put together post. > > My goal in all this is to make an Ethernet adapter on PDP11 under SimH > available to RSX11M+

Re: [Simh] Attaching DELUA device

2020-05-29 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 2:55 PM, Phil J Fisher, wrote: > I have an issue getting a DELUA device correctly attached when running under > VirtualBox on a CentOS 6 guest. > I have sort of got it to attach by using 'attach XU0 nat:'. But when I boot > RSX11M+ 4.6 it does not seem to be picked

Re: [Simh] Can't start VAX from SSH

2020-05-28 Thread Mark Pizzolato
In your ssh session, I would think you could disable the QVSS device in your VAX simulator configuration file and it would run VMS just fine. If that doesn't work (or if you never actually had the QVSS device enabled ), you could uninstall whatever libsdl2-dev package you've got on your Mac

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

2020-05-14 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 6:41 PM, Mike Stramba wrote: > On 5/13/20, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > And there is: > > > > sim> SHOW UBA IO > > or > > sim> SHOW -o UBA IO > > What are those showing ? > > It seems to be the last

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

2020-05-13 Thread Mark Pizzolato
And there is: sim> SHOW UBA IO or sim> SHOW -o UBA IO Maybe you can explain more about where you going with this... - Mark On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 5:23 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > Oh, and yes, there might be issues with 32 bit access, since the Unibus is > only > 16

Re: [Simh] Compile fail, linux 64 bit vax780 target

2020-05-08 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Friday, May 8, 2020 at 4:38 AM, Mark Wickens wrote: > I'm getting an error  - undeclared type off64_t when I try and compile > the vax780 emulator from a clone of the git repository made today. > If I edit sim_fio.c and change off64_t to __off64_t I then get implicit > declaration warnings

Re: [Simh] [EXTERNAL] RE: OpenVMS time conversion routines

2020-05-07 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 11:48 AM, Larry Baker wrote: > I did first try to find what tape formats SIMH supported.  I did not > see the ANSI option.  There were four options in the instructions I > found, as I recall.  That was news to me.  (I like the 7-track support!)   > I find it difficult

Re: [Simh] OpenVMS time conversion routines

2020-05-07 Thread Mark Pizzolato
Hi Larry, Maybe you don't need to do what you're trying to do. The latest SIMH tape support can let you attach the file in question and have it look to VMS like an ANSI labeled tape to the simulated system. sim> ATTACH TS0 -FB ANSI-VMS 8192 your-data-file{*}{,otherfiles...} >From VMS's point

Re: [Simh] Possible Issue with Comms Device Network Connection

2020-04-11 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, April 9, 2020 at 11:06 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote: > Sorry if the subject seems vague, I'm not sure how best to word it. > > Essentially, I've noticed problems with certain forms of connection > "statement" that have the "hostname:port" formation; tested with the > KS10,

Re: [Simh] PAK for VAX P.S.I.

2020-03-19 Thread Mark Pizzolato
Let's say you had the PAK(s). You could then install the software. Then what? That software connected through some hardware to something outside. What hardware was this and what did it connect to? I'm pretty sure that the hardware in question isn't simulated primarily due to the fact that

Re: [Simh] Simulating a GT40

2020-03-16 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Monday, March 16, 2020 at 12:12 AM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > > I'd like to set up SIMH to simulate a GT40 as closely as possible. To > > be precise, the GT40 that was a the MIT AI Lab. > > > > So far, I have this: > > > > set cpu 11/05 > > set cpu 16k > > set dli enabled

Re: [Simh] OpenVMS Hobbyist Program

2020-03-08 Thread Mark Pizzolato
VSI hasn’t said anything about this. Only HPE has. All we know now that that HPE is getting out of the Hobbyist business. Your point is exactly why I had asked if VSI views the Hobbyist user community a plus or minus. Only VSI can answer that, and we’ve got some 22 months for any answers to

Re: [Simh] SIMH tools

2020-02-16 Thread Mark Pizzolato
Hi Richard, On Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 3:05 PM, Richard Milward wrote: > Hey Bob! Thanks for keeping SIMH alive and up-to-date! > I have a comment and a question. > First, the link for the SIMH tools should be > http://simh.trailing-edge.com/sources/simtools/ and > not

Re: [Simh] Initializing disks (triggered by the "Something Strange with RK05" chain

2020-02-12 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at 4:22 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2020, at 5:37 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > > > Recent versions of the simh PDP11 will correctly auto size (RL01 vs RL02) > > disk > > containers that have or don’t have the DEC STD 144 b

Re: [Simh] Initializing disks (triggered by the "Something Strange with RK05" chain

2020-02-12 Thread Mark Pizzolato
Recent versions of the simh PDP11 will correctly auto size (RL01 vs RL02) disk containers that have or don’t have the DEC STD 144 bad block table at the end of the drive as long as the disk image has an RT11 file system on it. If it has an RT11 file system that fact will be reported. The

Re: [Simh] SDS Card Reader

2020-02-12 Thread Mark Pizzolato
Hi Ken, On Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at 10:51 AM, Kenr wrote: > I'm interested in using the SDS 940 simulator to run programs from the XDS > PAL tapes found on bitsavers. > Most of these programs were loaded onto the PAL library tapes from punched > cards by SDS/XDS in a self loading format

Re: [Simh] Command mode on SIMH for Windows

2020-01-16 Thread Mark Pizzolato
standard windows cmd.exe. Knowing the details of your environment, maybe I can make it work as expected all the time... > -Original Message- > From: Mark Pizzolato > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:47 PM > To: Timothy Stark ; simh@trailing-edge.com > Subject:

Re: [Simh] Command mode on SIMH for Windows

2020-01-16 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 9:22 AM, Timothy Stark wrote: > I am now set SIMH up on Windows 10 system.  I tried to enter command > mode from console by press ^E but it did not response. I can't exit SIMH > until I closed windows. > > Does anyone know which key for Windows to enter command

Re: [Simh] Not compiling through Termux on brand new tablet

2019-12-30 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Monday, December 30, 2019 at 11:43 AM, Ray Jewhurst wrote: > I tried disabling the -DHAVE_GLOB statement and except for a dismissable > warning; pdp8, pdp11 and vax went fine but when I went to build vax780, I > got the following message: > ead -ldl > BIN/vax780

Re: [Simh] Not compiling through Termux on brand new tablet

2019-12-29 Thread Mark Pizzolato
Look through the archive for a message sequence with the subject “[Simh] Simh on Android” which was back at the end of October. It seems that the termux components provided for some older versions of Android don’t have the library containing the glob logic in the default library search

Re: [Simh] MicroVAX 2000 simulator

2019-11-16 Thread Mark Pizzolato
I would start with a SHOW DEV when you get to the >>> prompt. From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Ray Jewhurst Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2019 6:30 PM To: simh Subject: [Simh] MicroVAX 2000 simulator I have decided to try out the MicroVAX 2000 simulator running VMS

Re: [Simh] OpenVMS, SIMH and outbound NAT

2019-10-29 Thread Mark Pizzolato
Hi Wes, On Sunday, October 27, 2019 at 8:14 PM, Wes Fisher wrote: > First, I love SIMH. I've been having so much fun running OpenVMS on a my > raspberry pi w. But, since the Raspi's wlan adapter can't be bridged, I've > had to > use the NAT method. However, for some reason, my VMS system can't

Re: [Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 189, Issue 13

2019-10-20 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Sunday, October 20, 2019 at 1:31 PM, Alan Abbott wrote: > Tried this and failed at the make stage with errors (many). > > Were some stages missed out? There was no errors until the make stage. > (Sorry I didnt make a note of them will do so tomorrow) Sorry. I forgot the step just before the

Re: [Simh] Running the PDP-8 SIMH Emulator on Android?

2019-10-19 Thread Mark Pizzolato
Hi Bob, On Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 1:24 PM, Bob Vines wrote: > Is there an Android version of the SIMH PDP-8 emulator?  > If so, can you point me to it?  Well, the easiest way to get any simh simulator to run on Android is to install the "termux" android app using the Google Play

Re: [Simh] tty magic(?) for talking to bootloaders?

2019-09-22 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 9:45 PM, Tom Perrine wrote: > Thanks!  That's the boost I needed. It didn't help that I am running SIMH 4.0 > but was using the SIMH 3.20 manual.  DOH! Docs for the latest version are located in the doc/ directory of the source repo. - Mark

Re: [Simh] tty magic(?) for talking to bootloaders?

2019-09-21 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 4:03 PM, Tom Perrine wrote: > So far I've got Multics, V7 and BSD4 running on SIMH in Google Cloud > Platform (GCP). I'm packaging some of these up into more turnkey images > and scripts so that more people can easily play with these Grand Olde > Operating

Re: [Simh] More compelling use for web server in SimH

2019-09-20 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Friday, September 20, 2019 at 8:52 AM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > Phil Budne wrotte: > > When I did the (oh so basic) GRAPHIC-2 device support for a PDP-7 UNIX > > "second seat" I mused that a more realistic experience might be had by > > implementing it as a web page > > This is good timing,

Re: [Simh] going back to the VAX console with CTRL P

2019-08-06 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 12:20 PM, Richard Cornwell wrote: >What I would rather see then an automatic connection of the console >to a telnet port, is the command processor running in a thread so >that when you ^E your simulator does not stop. Perhaps this could be >toggle able

Re: [Simh] going back to the VAX console with CTRL P

2019-08-06 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 11:28 AM, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: > List discussions today have commented on the default of Ctl-E (ASCII > 005) as the SIMH escape character, to return from a guest O/S to SIMH itself. > > That character is commonly used in the emacs editor family, and in Unix and

Re: [Simh] going back to the VAX console with CTRL P

2019-08-06 Thread Mark Pizzolato
, August 6, 2019 10:41 AM To: Mark Pizzolato Cc: gérard Calliet ; simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] going back to the VAX console with CTRL P It would make sense to add some conditional code so when a VAX emulator is compiled Ctrl-P is set as the console interrupt character. Ctrl-E is used

Re: [Simh] going back to the VAX console with CTRL P

2019-08-06 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 10:19 AM, gérard Calliet wrote: > With a hardware VAX, we can get back to the console from the OPA terminal > using a CTRL P key. Usefull to do some deposit, for example to initiate > xDELTA. > > Is it something like that possible with simh? I tried it and no result.

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: Issue #731 Related General review of simh PDP11 ability to set addr and set vector for all device where autoconfig is disabled - possible KDP bug

2019-08-02 Thread Mark Pizzolato
0n Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 6:37 AM, Geoff Conway wrote: [...] > The simplest solution of allowing set xu(b) vector=val was the appropriate > answer to the bug that I found. > > This has now been corrected in pdp11_xu.c and Mark late yesterday his time > built a new simh windows binaries

[Simh] QQQRE: EXT :Re: Issue #731 - simh PDP11 RSX11M-PLUS Unibus 11/94 system with 2 DEUNA ethernet device XUB not working

2019-07-30 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 8:18 PM, Geoff Conway wrote: > I spent a few hours yesterday investigating how the XU, XUB and XQ, XQB > devices interact within simh with respect of having CSR and vectors assigned > with or without autoconfig enabled. > > Unlike every other device the DEUNA XU & XUB

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: Issue #731 - simh PDP11 RSX11M-PLUS Unibus 11/94 system with 2 DEUNA ethernet device XUB not working

2019-07-29 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Monday, July 29, 2019 at 2:39 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > Interesting. But why would everything fail just because you set the CSR > address manually? This is a mystery to me. As far as I can think, it should > still > work just fine. > > What else is simh doing, that happens differently

Re: [Simh] dec windows with simh

2019-07-26 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 11:53 PM, Gérard Calliet wrote: > I have used for a long time the simh emulation of microvax 3900. I need > now to install and run DEC Windows on it. > > Do you think it is possible? And is there a better simh VAX model for that? A number of simulators with graphics

Re: [Simh] EXT : VAXstation 4000 Model 60

2019-07-12 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Friday, July 12, 2019 at 11:27 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > As far as I am aware, it was only some models in the 3100 series that used the > shorter SCSI commands in the boot rom, which caused issues with the boot > disk. However, I'm not sure that exact thing is the problem. > You might very

Re: [Simh] Build problem simh-vax4xx

2019-07-09 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 3:18 AM, Eberhard Heuser wrote: > After several attempts to produce working binaries of the vax4xx sources > I would like to get an advice how to solve the problem: > > > > The Visual Studio

Re: [Simh] VAX emulator slow to configure extra disks

2019-06-24 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 10:36 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > On 2019-06-24 15:12, Paul Koning wrote: > > > > > >> On Jun 23, 2019, at 4:44 PM, Mark Pizzolato > wrote: > >> > >> ... > >> As Tim mentioned, some of the hardware that is mod

Re: [Simh] Limits on MSCP controllers

2019-06-24 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 12:32 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > My point was simply that getting the response back that simh only allows > 4 disks per controller because that was what the real hardware allowed is a > rather bad answer (in my opinion), especially since simh don't even follow > what

Re: [Simh] Limits on MSCP controllers

2019-06-23 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Sunday, June 23, 2019 at 4:51 PM, Jonathan Welch wrote: > The system that I set up for myself and for my friend (who needs one more > disk than I do) was cloned from a VMS Cluster that has been in continuous > operation in its present form for about 20 years, so the issue is not with > mounting

Re: [Simh] Tun/Tap in Mint for RSX-11M Plus 4.6 running in SimH PDP11

2019-06-23 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Sunday, June 23, 2019 at 6:07 PM, Will Senn wrote: > This question may best be asked elsewhere but I'm struggling to make it work > with SimH, so here it is :) > > tldr; How can I get tun/tap working with Mint 19 and SimH RSX-11M Plus > 4.6 so that I can access the internet from the instance

Re: [Simh] VAX emulator slow to configure extra disks

2019-06-23 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Sunday, June 23, 2019 at 6:53 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > I can't remember having any such issues, but then again I also can't > remember if I ever tried it with VAX. With PDP-11 it works without any > issues. > > This is, though, another slight silliness in simh. The limit to 4 disks > per

Re: [Simh] VAX networking issue

2019-06-06 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 1:53 PM, Zane Healy wrote: > I have a SIMH/VAX install that was on a Raspberry Pi2 until we had a power > outage, now the RPi won’t recognize the SD card. So I’m trying to migrate it > to a > VM (Ubuntu 16.04LTS). It doesn’t seem to find the network. I’m able to

Re: [Simh] Problem with QVSS graphics display

2019-05-23 Thread Mark Pizzolato
place to look. From: Peter Allan [mailto:petermal...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 2:36 AM To: Mark Pizzolato Cc: Simh Trailing-Edge Mailing List Subject: Re: [Simh] Problem with QVSS graphics display I have tried the QDSS graphics with the MicroVAX II simulator and it does indeed

Re: [Simh] Creating a blank (NOVA) disk image

2019-05-20 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Monday, May 20, 2019 at 2:26 AM, Stephen Merrony wrote: > Can someone remind me how to create a blank disk image file > for use with SimH? > > I tried the following... > > set DKP0 6103 > attach -n DKP0 disk0.6103 > > ...but it just creates a zero-length file which is no use. Actually, for

Re: [Simh] Problem with QVSS graphics display

2019-05-20 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Monday, May 20, 2019 at 3:24 AM, Peter Allan wrote: > Encouraged by the recent release of simulated vaxen with QVSS graphics, > I have tried out a couple of these with very different results. Actually, the recent release was for QDSS graphics. The QVSS has been available for almost 6 years!

Re: [Simh] visual studio code support?

2019-05-14 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 12:21 PM, Seth Morabito wrote: > Eric Smith writes: > > > I’ve seen it, but I don’t have the blood pressure for working under > > Windows. > > > > I’m usually working with C or Python and I use vi for everything .. > > vim, actually, which has syntax highlighting,

Re: [Simh] FAQ page

2019-05-10 Thread Mark Pizzolato
The latest FAQ is available with the latest sources on Github: https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/doc/simh_faq.doc?raw=true - Mark On Friday, May 10, 2019 at 7:27 AM, Jonathan Welch wrote: > This works for me > > http://simh.trailing-edge.com/pdf/simh_faq.pdf > > On 5/10/19, Shane

Re: [Simh] Vax.exe emulator and Multinet network configuring

2019-05-09 Thread Mark Pizzolato
> identify them. > > David > > -Original Message- > From: Mark Pizzolato [mailto:m...@infocomm.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2019 2:21 PM > To: Hittner, David T [US] (MS) ; Jonathan Welch > > Cc: simh@trailing-edge.com > Subject: EXT :RE: [Simh] Vax.exe emula

Re: [Simh] Vax.exe emulator and Multinet network configuring

2019-05-09 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 12:52 PM, Jonathan Welch wrote: > It has been a considerable time since I have done any networking work > -- would you get me going in the right direction for setting up NAT on > Windows? There is nothing host specific about this. You get the basics with: sim>

Re: [Simh] Vax.exe emulator and Multinet network configuring

2019-05-09 Thread Mark Pizzolato
nal Message- > From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Mark > Pizzolato > Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2019 1:31 PM > To: Jonathan Welch > Cc: simh@trailing-edge.com > Subject: EXT :Re: [Simh] Vax.exe emulator and Multinet network configuring > > On T

Re: [Simh] Vax.exe emulator and Multinet network configuring

2019-05-09 Thread Mark Pizzolato
neIntel, > Level: > 6, Revision: 2a07 > git commit id: ab3e07a4 > git commit time: 2019-05-01T22:56:54-07:00 > sim> > > On 5/9/19, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > On Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 7:00 AM, Jonathan Welch wrote: > >> The vms systems on

Re: [Simh] Vax.exe emulator and Multinet network configuring

2019-05-09 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 7:00 AM, Jonathan Welch wrote: > The vms systems on our campus are about to be shut down. My former > boss and I would like to still have access to our files, so I've moved > an image of a vax system disk into simh. > > He is a networking expert and I am no slouch,

Re: [Simh] More VAX Simulators

2019-05-03 Thread Mark Pizzolato
That is a perfect solution for this specific problem as long as the VMS version you’re working with has OS knowledge of the ISO9660 file system layout. ISO9660 was a rather late addition to VMS, so although it is part of the VAX/VMS 7.3 version, several folks are running earlier VMS versions

Re: [Simh] More VAX Simulators

2019-05-03 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Friday, May 3, 2019 at 12:32 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > Are you trying to just cut-and-paste the license? > > The usual problem is that you just cannot just force-feed data on a terminal > line. You will be loosing characters. There is no flow control that can help > you... Well, since

Re: [Simh] need help getting vaxstation4000m60 to build with SDL

2019-05-03 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Friday, May 3, 2019 at 10:27 AM, Supratim Sanyal wrote: > It appears the make command does find the SDL library but > vaxstation4000m60 is being built without it. What am I doing wrong? Please report issues like this at: https://github.com/simh/simh/issues As Ray already answered, the Video

Re: [Simh] Imaging SCSI HD's

2019-04-21 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Sunday, April 21, 2019 at 9:24 PM, Zane Healy wrote: > Thanks Jeremy, if I’m understanding what you’re saying correctly, I’m going to > feel really stupid. Am I correct in reading this that I don’t have to boot > into > Standalone Backup, in order to backup the system disk? I’ve thought that

Re: [Simh] Imaging SCSI HD's

2019-04-21 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Sunday, April 21, 2019 at 11:28 AM, Zane Healy wrote: > I have a DL380 on the way to add to my ESXI cluster here at home. As a result > I’m looking to finish virtualizing my DEC HW. What is the best way to convert > a physical SCSI HD to a disk image for SIMH? I need to do this for both VAX

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: winpcap problem

2019-04-11 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 8:48 AM, gérard Calliet wrote: > Le 11/04/2019 à 17:21, Mark Pizzolato a écrit : > > Everything Dave said is true, AND part of the issue may be a need to > > configure some details about the new NIC you've just installed. > > Specifically, you s

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: winpcap problem

2019-04-11 Thread Mark Pizzolato
d anyone see a similar problem? Are there somewhere WinPcap gurus? > > Gérard Calliet > > > Le 11/04/2019 à 09:42, gérard Calliet a écrit : > > Hello, > > > > I tried a reboot of the host. Same problem. Is it possible there are > > NICs not compatible with WinPca

Re: [Simh] NVAX/CVAX-based VAXstation emulation?

2019-04-04 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 4:33 PM, Chris Hanson wrote: > Is anyone planning to add NVAX/CVAX-based VAXstation emulation to simh? > > I was surprised that pretty much nothing appears to emulate (for example) the > VAXstation 4000 series. Feel free to attempt to emulate the graphics on that

Re: [Simh] winpcap problem

2019-04-04 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 1:42 PM, gérard Calliet wrote: > I have some trouble using winpcap (on windows) with simh. > > I added a NIC (intel ethernet server adapter i350-t2), I can see it on the > windows > configuration panel, but I don't see it using simh "sho eth" > command, which uses

Re: [Simh] Command Language

2019-04-04 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Saturday, March 16, 2019 at 10:14 AM, David or Jan Takle wrote: > I see there are a ton of simH Command Language features that can be tracked > down via HELP that are not documented in the regular simH doc. > > Is there a single document file somewhere that contains every element of > the

Re: [Simh] Multiple sim_video windows?

2019-03-15 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Friday, March 15, 2019 at 11:04 AM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > Well, if there really were configurations which had software support > > that can still be found today that actually drove multiple display > > devices simultaneously > > I wo

Re: [Simh] Multiple sim_video windows?

2019-03-15 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Friday, March 15, 2019 at 10:01 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > > On Mar 15, 2019, at 12:52 PM, Mark Pizzolato > wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at 1:40 AM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > >> I'm using the upcoming SIMH KA10 simulator to restore MIT's > &

Re: [Simh] Multiple sim_video windows?

2019-03-15 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at 1:40 AM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > I'm using the upcoming SIMH KA10 simulator to restore MIT's Incompatible > Timesharing System. This is a multiuser system. As such, there is a need for > multiple user interfaces. The AI lab PDP-10 had many display and input >

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: some performance issues

2019-03-06 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 11:02 AM, gérard Calliet wrote: > VAX hardware 89 VUPS > > SIMH 27 VUPS > > Gérard Calliet I suspect you may be using some generally available DCL procedure to report the simulated system's VUPS. That procedure may not map very well to the actual total system

Re: [Simh] pdp10 mux and clock issue?

2019-02-25 Thread Mark Pizzolato
Hi Quentin, Please try using the latest code from https://github.com/simh/simh (available as a zip from https://github.com/simh/simh/archive/master.zip) and confirm if you are still seeing the problems. Also, please identify what telnet client you are using to connected to the DZ ports.

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

2018-12-22 Thread Mark Pizzolato
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 packaged simh 3.9.0: > > -

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

2018-12-20 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, December 20, 2018 at 12:17 PM, James Bevier wrote: > Being the SIM32 writer, let me tell you why, instead of everyone guessing. > First there is no rule that I know of that requires simulators to be 64 bit. > I developed the simulator using various Linux systems, mostly Fedora, both

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

2018-12-19 Thread Mark Pizzolato
I'll be working with James to get a clean merge into the simh master branch which will address this and all other cross platform integration details. We'll let you know. - Mark On Dec 19, 2018 4:29 PM, Mike Stramba wrote: I'm getting /usr/include/features.h:374:25: fatal error: sys/cdefs.h:

Re: [Simh] Transferring the licence file to the VAX emulator

2018-12-17 Thread Mark Pizzolato
DCL will handle the Stream file just fine AS LONG AS the file attributes explicitly identify the correct Stream record attributes. DIR/FULL will display the current record format. If the file was transferred in binary mode, it will likely end with "Fixed length 512 byte records". Even if

Re: [Simh] how to set language number for VAX VMB

2018-12-15 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 9:08 PM, Ron Young wrote: > I'm playing with the latest version of the microvax 3900 and > 4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c and would like to set default language > in VMB to 5 (us english). If I remember correctly there used > to be a "set language 5"

Re: [Simh] VAXELN, rtVAX-1000, WTC, time

2018-12-15 Thread Mark Pizzolato
Hi Wilm, On Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 3:45 AM, Wilm Boerhout wrote: > I'm trying to get my head around VAXELN and system time. > > Before I cry "Wolf" and accuse any innocent program(mer) of instruction > obstruction, I want to know how things are supposed to work here (i.e. > as on a real

Re: [Simh] vax idle for NetBSD

2018-12-14 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2018, at 1:40 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > > > The simple test with the VAX simulator is to enable any OS form of > > idling and boot the simulator. While sitting at the ROM >>> p

Re: [Simh] vax idle for NetBSD

2018-12-11 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 9:50 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2018, at 12:01 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > > > ... > > Meanwhile, something else has changed relatively recently that doesn't > > seem to actually execute this code when the system st

Re: [Simh] vax idle for NetBSD

2018-12-11 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 7:47 AM, Anders Magnusson wrote: > Den 2018-12-11 kl. 11:11, skrev David Brownlee: > > 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.

Re: [Simh] vax idle for NetBSD

2018-12-11 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 2:12 AM, David Brownlee wrote: > 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

Re: [Simh] vax idle for NetBSD

2018-12-09 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 12:09 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > > On Nov 15, 2018, at 9:32 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > > > > I just installed NetBSD/VAX V8 on SIMH. The documentation mentions "set > cpu idle=netbsd", but it doesn't work -- I'm stuck at 100% CPU. > > > > I'm running it on the

Re: [Simh] Ultrix network issues

2018-11-15 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 4:31 PM, Douglas Hall wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, at 23:47, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > > Thanks for the SHOW VERSION output. > > > > Meanwhile the more important detail will be things like SHOW ETHERNET > > And SHOW XQ STATS, and

Re: [Simh] Ultrix network issues

2018-11-15 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 3:27 PM, Douglas Hall wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, at 17:25, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > > From what you've said here, not being a Xen user myself, it is not > > 100% clear exactly what's running where. > > > > Is it: Ultrix on

Re: [Simh] Ultrix network issues

2018-11-15 Thread Mark Pizzolato
Hi Douglas, On Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 8:50 AM, Douglas Hall wrote: > I've been successfully running Ultrix 4.5 on a Microvax3900 sim , but I've had > problems with networking since migrating the sim to a Xen DomU host. > > TCP network performance for file transfers is painfully slow.

Re: [Simh] vax idle for NetBSD

2018-11-15 Thread Mark Pizzolato
Hi Paul, On Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 6:32 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > I just installed NetBSD/VAX V8 on SIMH. The documentation mentions "set > cpu idle=netbsd", but it doesn't work -- I'm stuck at 100% CPU. > > I'm running it on the microvax3900 simulator, if that makes a difference. Any >

Re: [Simh] PDP-11 Spacewar?

2018-11-09 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Friday, November 9, 2018 at 7:00 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > > On Nov 9, 2018, at 5:24 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > > > On 2018-11-09 10:18, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > >> Hello, > >> This seems to be a Spacewar for PDP-11. Written using the PALX cross > >> assembler. But what kind of display is

Re: [Simh] disk file format (rk05)

2018-09-25 Thread Mark Pizzolato
Appendix 1 (File Representations) of the Simh User’s Guide spells out this detail. The latest version can be found at: https://github.com/simh/simh/raw/master/doc/simh_doc.doc Folks who don’t directly have access to a Microsoft Word document reader can see the document contents by saving it

Re: [Simh] Looking for EVKAA Listing

2018-09-22 Thread Mark Pizzolato
only hope someone has it. - Mark > -Original Message- > From: Simh On Behalf Of Mark Pizzolato > Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2018 3:46 PM > To: simh@trailing-edge.com > Subject: [Simh] Looking for EVKAA Listing > > Hello everyone, > > We've got a problem with

[Simh] Looking for EVKAA Listing

2018-09-22 Thread Mark Pizzolato
Hello everyone, We've got a problem with the VAX simulators which has come up several times in the past and is threatening to completely break them in the future. The original implementation of the VAX simulator code was done with int32 variables throughout and assumed VAX like consistent

Re: [Simh] What happened to IDLE?

2018-09-20 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 8:49 AM, Gregg Levine wrote: > I confess I didn't know that. And given what happens next regarding the PDP11 > one, I shall certainly do all of that, if something does not work. Great. > For option 2 I didn't bother to save the output shown when making it, so

Re: [Simh] What happened to IDLE?

2018-09-20 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 8:23 AM, Gregg Levine wrote: > Hello! > I grabbed the sources from GIT earlier today. And promptly built the two I'll > need. PDP11 for one, and the VAX ones for the other on a Raspberry Pi3. I even > added the options for networking that the README wanted. > >

Re: [Simh] Simulating power fail

2018-09-07 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Friday, September 7, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > > On Sep 7, 2018, at 12:37 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > > > On Friday, September 7, 2018 at 1:18 AM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > >> Timothe Litt wrote: > >>> Adding an API in the CPU of the

Re: [Simh] Simulating power fail

2018-09-07 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Friday, September 7, 2018 at 1:18 AM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > Timothe Litt wrote: > > Adding an API in the CPU of the form assert_powerfail( vector) - where > > the default is the usual 24/26, but a ROM can specify an alternate > > (usually its base address + 24/26). This is common to all

Re: [Simh] DMA to IO space

2018-09-06 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 5:31 PM, Bob Supnik wrote: > It's not a quirk, it's a design feature. > > The PDP11 simulator didn't start out as a generalized, all-singing, > all-dancing > emulation of all possible PDP11 models; it started as a J11 and PDP-11/73 > simulator - one processor

Re: [Simh] More on DMA to IO page

2018-09-06 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Bob Supnik wrote: > Looking at the DEC ChipKit documentation, [...] > So my conclusion is that IO mapped PDP11s (which are, of course, always > Unibus) do support DMA to IO space, so you could put a GT40 (in theory) on a > Unibus J11, and it would

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