Re: [Simh] Tops-20 4.1 on simh PDP-10: trouble during install

Hi Tom I have TOPS-10 monitor 7.04 running quite happily on simh. One of things I found was that set cpu idle may not always be ok, but is fine when you have a working o/s. Also I set cpu tops10 - I’m not sure what this does but it means it works. Here is my tops 10 startup script: set cpu

Re: [Simh] pdp10 mux and clock issue?

> using to connected to the DZ ports. > > Thanks. > > - Mark >   <> > From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com > <mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com>] On Behalf Of Quentin North > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2019 2:54 PM > To: simh mailto:

[Simh] pdp10 mux and clock issue?

Hi Im using the pdp10 emulator and running tops10 7.0.4 and Im seeing a couple of issues: - Intermittently a terminal session will issue a TOPS-10 command (say R SUBFIL) and the mux will echo the characters but then the session will not do any output from the system until I go to the CTY and

[Simh] DZ issues on PDP10

Hi There has been quite a bit of chat about the DZ handler recently, so I just wanted to share an issue that I have found whilst using a DZ mux on pdp10. When I have more than one terminal connected, intermittently i/o on one terminal stop until there is i/o on another terminal (usually me

Re: [Simh] Printer on TOPS-10

LP96.RAM. > LPTSPL will make the right choice if you MONGEN the printer correctly, as > will any application that asks for the printer type (or uses the LL > pseudo-device). > > On 21-Mar-18 10:24, Quentin North wrote: >> Having fixed the LPFORMS, SYSTEM.CMD and SYSJOB.INI

Re: [Simh] Printer on TOPS-10

Having fixed the LPFORMS, SYSTEM.CMD and SYSJOB.INI, and enable lp20 in simh, I still couldn’t get it to work until I did the shutdown and startup as below. Now it prints. Hurrah! 14:18:09Printer 0 -- Not available right now -- OPR>shutdown printer 0 OPR> 14:18:14Printer 0

[Simh] Printer on TOPS-10

Possibly a silly question, but does anyone know how to get the printer to work on TOPS-10 on simh? I have attached a printer files to the printer device but the printer and the spooler fills up with output on TOPS-10, but the the printer stays offline in TOPS-10 and I cant find out how to get

Re: [Simh] [SPAM?] TOPS-10 question

Feb 2018, at 06:39, Lars Brinkhoff <l...@nocrew.org> wrote: > > Quentin North wrote: >> Im trying to get the BCPL compiler on TOPS-10 going > > Which one? It would be interesting to have Essex BCPL and see if it's > possible to b

[Simh] TOPS-10 question

Hi all Im trying to get the BCPL compiler on TOPS-10 going and I have the install CTL file which sets out the following pre-requisites: THE FOLLOWING MODS TO THE SYSTEM/CUSPS ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE SMOOTH ; ; RUNNING OF BCPL PROGRAMS: ; ;

Re: [Simh] Tops-10 question/help

Thanks Rich. At Tim’s suggestion I cracked it by giving the user account profile a quota on dskb: and that automatically included dskb: in the search list for the user account. > On 9 Feb 2018, at 00:25, Rich Alderson <s...@alderson.users.panxi.com> wrote: > >> From: Q

[Simh] Tops-10 question/help

Hi all A bit off topic, but Im not a historical Dec user so don’t know some of the basics with Dec OSes and have never oped one before. I have installed and configured Tops-10 on a simh PDP10. It is all fine, but when I am creating user accounts I have bumped into two minor issues and after

Re: [Simh] Crowther's Adventure game

That's amazing! I'll have to see if I can get it all going as i have never opped a Dec 10 so it will be a learning journey. Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Feb 2018, at 18:04, Lars Brinkhoff <l...@nocrew.org> wrote: > > Quentin North wrote: >> A bit off topic, but if anyon

Re: [Simh] Crowther's Adventure game

A bit off topic, but if anyone has a BCPL compiler for the Dec 10 I have the source code and files to the original Essex MUD. Unfortunately I think the compiler is lost, but I live in hope. Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Feb 2018, at 15:06, Bob Nelson wrote: > > There are

Re: [Simh] PDP11 on Simh for public access

an Davies <bryan.e.dav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks. I just tried sudo apt-get install simh and it tells me that I am on > the latest version (3.8.1-5) . Is there a newer one, and if so how do I > install it? > > On 18 January 2018 at 16:47, Quentin North <qu

[Simh] Latest pull for HP2100 seems to loose time

HI I have the latest pull for smh and I am running HP/Access o/s on the HP2100 cpu & iop. On the latest pull the guest OS seems to loose track of time, notably about 5 minutes over two hours. Anyone got any ideas about what might be going on? Thanks Quentin

Re: [Simh] Question about card readers.

I wonder whether OP is referring to a situation where there is a 96 character line, such as a programming language statement, and that the first 80 characters would be on a card and then the remaining 16 characters would be on the next card but with a continuation character in, say, column 1. I

Re: [Simh] Intel's PL/M-86, ASM86 and iAPX-86 Utilities source code

I remember using iRMX-86 which was a realtime os environment and from memory had a ucsd like menu based user interface along with PLM-86 as the main programming language. We used it for building flight simulator visual systems. Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Feb 2016, at 15:31, Armistead, Jason

Re: [Simh] Graphics Terminals and Graphic System Phototypesetters

> >> On Dec 9, 2015, at 10:33 PM, Will Senn wrote: >> ... >> Is is possible to simulate a graphics terminal in SimH for the >> PDP-11/40/45/70. So far, I have been able to get a text console working (I >> think it's a Teletype ASR-33) and serial consoles (DCI). I have

[Simh] Principal vintage software developer

I saw this job advertised in Seattle which may be of interest to members of the list http://www.vulcan.com/About/Job-Listings?jvi=oTAQYfw1,Job Brush off your PDP and CDC skills. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com

[Simh] GE are hiring PDP-11 assembler programmers

I don't know if anyone else has picked up on this, but GE Canada are hiring PDP-11 assembler programmers. More details via this news article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/19/nuke_plants_to_keep_pdp11_until_2050/ ___ Simh mailing list

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

On 20 Apr 2012, at 20:46, Nathan Cutler wrote: If I remember correctly, the SimH serial-port emulation relies on telnet. Awhile back I tried to attach a real VT420 to a SimH/VAX instance running OpenVMS 7.3, and as I found out it's not really the same as running a VT420 attached to a real

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

Very off topic, but there is a old HP computer simulator called HP9800E which fully simulates in software the look, feel and sound of the HP98XX range of programmable calculators/computers. If you run it up it makes the fan noises and the printer noises and everything whilst flashing all thr

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: rasberry pi

I run simh on a sheevaplug with two concurrent HP2100 systems simulated with network based interconnect kits between the two. With only a single Arm core the performance takes a hit on CPU before memory becomes an issue. Sent from my iPad On 8 Mar 2012, at 00:13, Jan-Benedict Glaw

Re: [Simh] simh under slackware64

Download the slackware libpcap package from http://search.slackware.eu/cgi-bin/package.cgi/download/slackware-current/slackware/l/libpcap-1.1.1-i486-1.txz/USA Next as root use installpkg -m libpcap to install the downloaded package. You should then have libpcap.so which is what simh requires

Re: [Simh] What OS was this {HP2100}

It sounds like HP Fortran which is available for simh. You can find tapes and manuals on bitsavers.org and there is a yahoo group dedicated to HP 2000 series on simh. Sent from my iPad On 5 Nov 2011, at 04:49, Ron Hudson hudson...@gmail.com wrote: Calling fans of the HP2100 When I was in