Re: [Simh] Status of alpha simulator

I was able to compile DECaxp, but I couldn’t figure out how to do anything with it. I opted to go with the same Linux version as the author. Has anyone managed to get it working? Zane > On May 7, 2020, at 7:01 PM, Timothy Stark wrote: > > There is a few open source Alpha emulators like

Re: [Simh] HPE has started emailing the final hobbyist licenses

What exactly does 5.5-2H4 get you that isn’t in 5.5-2? Is it more than just extra hardware support? Zane > On Mar 13, 2020, at 5:17 AM, Ray Jewhurst wrote: > > 5.5-2H4 still requires a PAK and also I have never been able to get that > specific image (from VAXHaven) to work but the TK50

Re: [Simh] New release of PDP10 simulators.

> I looked there for a bit. For those not fluent in PDP-10, would it be > possible to add some instructions? Or pointers to manuals (say, on > Bitsavers) that would help? Hi Paul, Here is what you want. http://www.avanthar.com/healyzh/decemulation/pdp10emu.html The PDP-10 is why I started

Re: [Simh] OpenVMS Hobbyist Program

On Mar 7, 2020, at 8:09 PM, Tony Nicholson wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 11:39 AM Hunter Goatley > wrote: > [snip] > > I had hoped that HPE would release non-expiring VAX PAKs, because why > not? They're out of the game, and no one else has the code for

Re: [Simh] CP-V or CP-6?

To the best of my knowledge, the Multics software that available the only thing available for the DPS-8 family. I for one would love to be able to run GCOS-8 again, but I don’t see that ever happening. Have you seen the Wikipedia page on CP-6? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_CP-6

Re: [Simh] VAX + Spectre

It might be worth asking on comp.os.vms as well, it’s one of the few USENET groups that seems to still be active. Zane > On Sep 17, 2019, at 6:55 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > > "Spectre" is one of two notorious bugs of modern CPUs involving speculative > execution. I rather doubt that VAX is

Re: [Simh] VAXstation 4000 Model 60

> On Jul 12, 2019, at 5:58 AM, Jeremy Begg wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to set up SIMH on a new Linux server, an Intel NUC8i3BEH with > 16GB RAM and 250GB SSD running Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS. > > I've built the VAXstation 4000 Model 60 simulator on this system and I > didn't notice any

Re: [Simh] Release of PDP10 KA/KI and PDP6 simulators.

> On Jul 10, 2019, at 4:29 AM, Richard Cornwell wrote: > > I am pleased to announce a new set of simulators for the PDP10 series > of computers by DEC. The simulators currently run the PDP6, KA10 and > KI10. I will be adding the KL10 later. The KA10 and KI10 simulators > will run Tops 10 up to

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: VAX networking issue

> On Jun 10, 2019, at 7:13 AM, Hittner, David T [US] (MS) > wrote: > > VMware is somewhat inconsistent in what triggers their network security to > block access. It's some bizarre internal algorithm. I've had VMware allow > network access for months and then all of a sudden shut off network

Re: [Simh] [SPAM] VAX networking issue

> On Jun 10, 2019, at 12:40 AM, Tom wrote: > > On 06/06/2019 21:52, 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

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: VAX networking issue

d to and see if that solves the "two mac addresses coming from the > same network port" problem. > The vSwitch promiscuous mode is set to "reject" by default. > > David > > -Original Message- > From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge

Re: [Simh] VAX networking issue

> On Jun 6, 2019, at 2:11 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > The above output is suspicious since it doesn't say that the XQ device has > been > attached to any interface. > > What is the output of SHOW ETHER on this simulator? > Are you running as ROOT (which is required for network functionality

[Simh] VAX networking issue

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 SSH to the host VM, so I know it’s on the network. I’ve tried

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

Have you tried running over a wired connection, rather than a wireless connection? You might also try running SIMH under a Linux VM. Zane > On 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

Re: [Simh] PDP-6 and KA10 software kits

> On May 5, 2019, at 3:22 AM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm putting the cart way ahead of the horse here, but I'm wondering what > software you want for the upcoming KA10 and PDP-6? > > For the PDP-6, we have: > > - Some early DEC Monitor (Cornwell has the details) > - LISP (1966)

Re: [Simh] More VAX Simulators

> On May 1, 2019, at 3:16 PM, Matt Burke wrote: > > The first thing to note (if you haven't spotted it already) is that the > simulators have been merged into the Simh master branch and a number of > fixes have been applied. CD-ROM and tape drive support is now included > along with fixes to

Re: [Simh] Imaging SCSI HD's

> On Apr 21, 2019, at 9:30 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > 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 thi

Re: [Simh] Imaging SCSI HD's

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 was a requirement for cloning a drive for well over 20 years.

Re: [Simh] Imaging SCSI HD's

Thanks for jogging my mind, it’s been a long time since I’ve done something like this. I should be able to come up with larger SCSI drives in each of these cases. This thread has also got me thinking, and I need to try and find my notes for how I was imaging RL01 and RL02 disk packs on my

Re: [Simh] Imaging SCSI HD's

This was supposed to go out well before my last email, I thought it went out hours ago, and just realized I’d not sent it. The hazards of doing too many things today. > On Apr 21, 2019, at 2:36 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > On Sunday, April 21, 2019 at 11:28 AM, Zane Healy wrote:

Re: [Simh] Imaging SCSI HD's

> On Apr 21, 2019, at 2:36 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > >> I tried to run the following: >> backup/image/verify dka200: dka100:[00]20190420-system.sav/sav >> >> I ended up with a very strange “No valid storage bitmap found” error, and it >> failed to copy anything. >> >> Facility: BACKUP,

[Simh] Imaging SCSI HD's

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 and PDP-11. One of the main systems that I want to

Re: [Simh] More VAX Simulators

> On Apr 21, 2019, at 1:44 AM, Matt Burke wrote: > > I managed to get a working configuration using the images from the > freeware. I've written up the procedure here: > > http://www.9track.net/simh/infoserver > > The target disk must be DKA100 and you need to set the boot flags to > D000

Re: [Simh] More VAX Simulators

> On Apr 20, 2019, at 12:56 AM, Matt Burke wrote: > > On 20/04/2019 01:13, Zane Healy wrote: >> Very exciting! Especially the InfoServer support, and potentially very >> timely for what I am planning to do this weekend. Does the InfoServer >> simulation suppo

Re: [Simh] More VAX Simulators

Very exciting! Especially the InfoServer support, and potentially very timely for what I am planning to do this weekend. Does the InfoServer simulation support backing up a system disk on a VAX or Alpha to InfoServer tape? Actually does it even support tape?

Re: [Simh] VCB02 Released

with this when I can really find some time to play! This is seriously cool! Zane Sent from my iPod > On Apr 14, 2019, at 1:40 PM, Zane Healy wrote: > > Initial attempts to run this haven’t been great, but I think that’s largely > due to how I’m trying to run it. > > I have

Re: [Simh] VCB02 Released

Initial attempts to run this haven’t been great, but I think that’s largely due to how I’m trying to run it. I have a “workstation” VM running under ESXI. It’s running OpenSUSE 15, and I connect to it from my Mac via a copy of the commercial RealVNC client on my Mac. If I don’t use ‘set qdss

Re: [Simh] VAXClustering with Linux Desktops?

> On Apr 12, 2019, at 5:53 PM, Ray Jewhurst wrote: > > I have seen articles everywhere setting a VAXCluster using SimH and Raspberry > Pis but none with Linux desktops. I am putting together a small network of 3 > or four Linux machines and thought it would be kind of neat to put together a

Re: [Simh] VCB02 Released

This is really good news, thank you. This is something I’ve been wanting to play with. I’ve used DECwindows quite a bit on my Alpha’s, but never on my VAXen. I have (at least I think I still have it), a VAXstation II/RC with the monochrome monitor, but never got VMS going on it, as I ended

Re: [Simh] some performance issues

I have to wonder if a lightweight Linux disto, that has been locked down, running on a Core i7 might not give better SIMH performance. My *old* i7 ESXI box provides a faster “VAX” than my VAXstation 4000/60. What is the reason for running on Itanium? Zane > On Mar 6, 2019, at 1:57 AM,

Re: [Simh] Connecting SimH to a Network Printer

What OS are you running under SIMH? I’m able to send prints from OpenVMS running on SIMH, to my HP LaserJet. Unfortunately I forget how I had it setup for TOPS-10. Zane Sent from my iPod > On Jan 26, 2019, at 3:25 PM, Robert W.Mills wrote: > > Hi all, > > Is it possible to attach a

Re: [Simh] SCSI-Interface for simh-vax?

> On Sep 1, 2018, at 12:28 PM, Clem Cole wrote: > > below... > > On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 2:39 PM Zane Healy <mailto:heal...@avanthar.com>> wrote: > Create a virtual disk in SIMH the size of the CD-R blank. Prep the disk, > then burn it to CD-R. This is how I c

Re: [Simh] SCSI-Interface for simh-vax?

Create a virtual disk in SIMH the size of the CD-R blank. Prep the disk, then burn it to CD-R. This is how I created my bootable CD’s for RT-11 and RSX-11M+. I’ve then used those CD’s to do installs on my PDP-11/73. I wasn’t able to figure out how to make it work in RSTS/E. I could create

Re: [Simh] Trying to install openvms 7.3 over a Beta install of openvms k7.2

If this is under SIMH, simply create a image of the CD, and mount that under SIMH. Zane > On Aug 7, 2018, at 3:52 PM, Jeremy Begg wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > With only 64218 free blocks on the system disk you might run into problems > upgrading VMS regardless of where the savesets live. > >

Re: [Simh] VAX emulation issues on Raspberry Pi

Don’t forget SIMH is emulating a lot more than just the CPU, it also has to emulate all the rest of the hardware that makes up a VAX. My Raspberry Pi 2 clocks in at about 1.6 VUPS, my ESXI host is a i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (which is starved for RAM), SIMH/VAX on a VM running on it clocks in at

Re: [Simh] MicroVAX 3900 simulator fails BIST sometimes?

Sounds like I’ve been lucky. My main SIMH VAX uses a fairly current MicroVAX 3900 build, mainly for virtual tape support, the others are using the prebuilt 3.8 build available in Ubuntu and Raspian. Zane > On Jun 23, 2018, at 12:57 PM, Alan Frisbie wrote: > > So I'm not alone! I have

Re: [Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?

the limits of 32 bit operating systems or file systems > using signed ints. > > Tim > >> On Feb 21, 2018, at 12:29 AM, Zane Healy <heal...@avanthar.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On Feb 20, 2018, at 8:56 PM, Mark Pizzolato <m...@infocomm.com> wrote

Re: [Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?

> On Feb 20, 2018, at 8:56 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > TQ limited to 2000GB means a limit of 2TB. Do you have disks on the AXP > system > that big? Unfortunately the 2000GB is a typo on my part. A 2GB “tape" is too small for me, and has been for a long time. From the

Re: [Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?

> On Feb 20, 2018, at 8:17 PM, Larry Baker wrote: > > You should be able to write an ODS-5 backup save set to an ODS-2 disk image > on your SIMH VAX. It may help you decide whether the cluster I/O or the > virtual tape drive is the culprit crashing your VAX. Make the VAX

Re: [Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?

> On Feb 20, 2018, at 1:58 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > > I would actually attribute the 'improved' behavior to the fact that tape I/O > to TQ > and XQ devices is asynchronous in the latest code. > > I would seriously consider Mr Baker's suggestion of backing up to simh

Re: [Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?

I’d posted about this nearly a month ago, and have made some real progress this weekend. Configuration: MONK OpenVMS 8.3/Alpha Compaq XP1000/667 RENNY OpenVMS 7.3/VAX SIMH MicroVAX3900 I’m backing MONK up over the Cluster to a “tape drive” on RENNY. First, Ubuntu includes a package for SIMH

Re: [Simh] VMScluster installation guide?

Thanks! I’ve updated that link, that’s one I hadn’t found. Zane > On Feb 16, 2018, at 8:11 AM, Tim Stark wrote: > > I checked PDP-10 page and it looks great. > > I noticed that KX10’s link is dead. KX10 is now on GitHub - > https://github.com/brouhaha/kx10.git

Re: [Simh] VMScluster installation guide?

Looks like a great resource. I’ve just added links to your pages to the VAX page on my DEC emulation website, under the installation information section. http://www.avanthar.com/healyzh/decemulation/vax.html As an FYI to everyone, the site is a lot more up-to-date than it has been in a decade

Re: [Simh] VMScluster installation guide?

You probably want to look online for the following VMS manuals. “Cluster Systems” “Guidelines for OpenVMS Cluster Configurations” I’m trying to find time to read through them myself. Setting up a basic cluster is easy, but it’s been nearly 20 years since I last ran a cluster, so there is a

Re: [Simh] best way to scan 172 column fanfold 80s printout?

> On Feb 11, 2018, at 12:10 PM, Timothe Litt wrote: > > Lighting is an issue, as is compensating for keystoning and other > misalignments. Most cameras don't have a standard remote trigger interface - > one of the pointers I provided loads modified firmware into cameras from

Re: [Simh] best way to scan 172 column fanfold 80s printout?

> On Feb 11, 2018, at 6:55 AM, Dan Gahlinger wrote: > > I have several printouts like this, > the one I was just trying to scan in is labelled "EMPIRE Version 4.0 > 18-Jan-81" > with the notice: "Please send bug reports to ELROND::EMPIRE" > This is a Vax/VMS Fortran

Re: [Simh] NetHack game

> On Feb 3, 2018, at 4:30 PM, Bob Eager wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Feb 2018 23:41:48 + > Dan Gahlinger wrote: > >> There are other games ? larn, moria, imoria, umoria, hack and rogue. > > All of those exist today. I see they are all available as packages

Re: [Simh] PDP for beginners

> On Feb 2, 2018, at 6:25 PM, Pär Moberg wrote: > > I am looking to put up a PDP-# machine to play with. What machine and > OS should I use. I am looking for simple/beginner system, or as > beginner it got. Also, not *nix, it is still alive and therefore > boring. >

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: DEC Alpha Emulation

you wanted to run NT "headless" over the serial >> port, which is allowed by the NT specification. ARC firmware is much harder >> due to having an x86 register emulator, and an INT 10 BIOS emulator, as well >> as running everything in 32-bit mode. >> >>

Re: [Simh] DEC Alpha Emulation

> On Feb 3, 2018, at 3:43 AM, Angelo Papenhoff wrote: > > Why is the page for the 10 so hard? > Lars is quite active in collecting and documenting things, check out > http://gunkies.org/wiki/PDP-10 > > aap The page for the PDP-10 was the best of the pages I have, and is the

Re: [Simh] DEC Alpha Emulation

tion > > Zane, > > just had a look at your Alpha page, and noticed that you missed an emulator: > FreeAXP / Avanti from Migration Specialties, > http://www.migrationspecialties.com/ > This is where the ES40 emulator went, AFAIK. > > cu, > Martin > > -Ursprü

Re: [Simh] DEC Alpha Emulation

went, AFAIK. > > cu, > Martin > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] Im Auftrag von Zane Healy > Gesendet: Freitag, 2. Februar 2018 05:56 > An: SIMH <simh@trailing-edge.com> > Betreff: [Simh] DEC Alpha Emulation > >

[Simh] DEC Alpha Emulation

I’m in the process of slowly updating my DEC Emulation website, which has been largely stagnant since 2007. The first page I’m spending some significant time on is the DEC Alpha page, as I’m curious to see what the current options are. In reviewing things, I notice that Alpha emulation was

Re: [Simh] very simple question

> On Feb 1, 2018, at 1:27 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > On 2018-02-01 16:19, Paul Koning wrote: >>> On Feb 1, 2018, at 10:15 AM, gerard.call...@pia-sofer.fr wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Sorry for a such trivial question: I have to create a 9G hard disk >>> container. >>>

Re: [Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?

nd not try to play with remote tapes. > > Johnny > > > Zane Healy <heal...@avanthar.com> skrev: (26 januari 2018 02:54:20 CET) > If it was applicable to the situation, then VMSTPC would work great. It’s > already installed on my Alpha, and I’m pretty sure there is a V

Re: [Simh] Terminal Emulator

I initially had to use Telix running on a 386sx laptop to send the bootstrap to my PDP-11. I used it a lot in the 90’s. One of the best MS DOS programs I know of. Zane > On Jan 25, 2018, at 6:45 PM, Dan Gahlinger wrote: > > telix > > Original message

Re: [Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?

> On Jan 25, 2018, at 4:18 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > Exabytes? > I know there was some people who thought they couldn't do variable size > reocrds, but that is actually incorrect. They can. It might be wasting space > on the underlying tape or something, I don't know.

Re: [Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?

> On Jan 25, 2018, at 1:39 PM, Larry Baker wrote: > > I agree completely. DECnet is your friend. On VMS, it works right out of > the box. I have never had a need to try rmt. As I mentioned in an earlier > email, I have built a DECnet FAL-to-NFS gateway using DECnet-Linux.

Re: [Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?

> On Jan 25, 2018, at 2:22 PM, Dennis Boone wrote: > > If you're venturing into unix technology, it's possible to mount nfs > shares on the VMS machines. Then you can use BACKUP to write save sets > onto the nfs share. There seems to be some care needed with ADF > metadata.

Re: [Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?

t came up in the first set of Google > search results for "VMSTPC" > > Good luck > Jason > > > -Original Message- > From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Johnny > Billquist > Sent: Thursday, 25 January 2018 5:48 PM > To

Re: [Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?

>> >> As far as I can tell, the GITHUB repository lacks such files. >> https://github.com/simh/simh/tree/master/ > > No, it's right there. Remember that Github displays are case sensitive, so > all the machine directories (being upper case, apart from "alpha") come > first, then the lowercase

Re: [Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?

> On Jan 25, 2018, at 6:57 AM, Clem Cole <cl...@ccc.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 5:25 PM, Zane Healy <heal...@avanthar.com > <mailto:heal...@avanthar.com>> wrote: > > I’d like to backup to a simulated tape drive on the one emula

Re: [Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?

> On Jan 25, 2018, at 6:28 AM, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Jan 24, 2018, at 8:33 PM, Zane Healy <heal...@avanthar.com> wrote: >> >> How do I set the tape size to 0? I’d say that’s a stupid question, but I’ve >> had very little lu

Re: [Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?

and will be limited to 4Gigabyte tape image sizes. >> >> I don't think this is a fundamental limit to the tape image formats used by >> SIMH, just a common limitation of the tape image tools you might find from >> 20 years ago. >> >> Tim. >> >

Re: [Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?

> On Jan 24, 2018, at 2:07 PM, Mark Pizzolato <m...@infocomm.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Zane Healy wrote: >> What type/size of tapes does the VAX emulation support? I was looking >> through the doc’s and it wasn’t obvious to me. Is t

[Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?

What type/size of tapes does the VAX emulation support? I was looking through the doc’s and it wasn’t obvious to me. Is there a size limit? Thanks, Zane ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com

[Simh] VMware and SIMH/VAX

I finally found the root cause of the problems I’ve had with running the SIMH VAX 3900 emulation on an Ubuntu VM on my ESXI server. I’d previously been using the VM for trying out a PDP-11 emulator on VMware, and the CPU was running at 100%, so I’d throttled it to 500Mhz. That’s all well and

Re: [Simh] VMS 1.5 installable?

> On Oct 17, 2017, at 12:39 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > > >> On Oct 17, 2017, at 3:31 PM, Ray Jewhurst wrote: >> >> I'm sure this has asked before but I couldn't find any references to it >> here. On Bitsavers, I found a file called

Re: [Simh] Terminal Emulation for SIMH?

> From: Warren Young <tangents...@gmail.com> > Date: 2017-09-12 3:15 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: > Cc: simh@trailing-edge.com > Subject: Re: [Simh] Terminal Emulation for SIMH? > > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Zane Healy <heal...@aracnet.com > <mailto:hea

Re: [Simh] Terminal Emulation for SIMH?

> On Sep 12, 2017, at 12:33 PM, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se> wrote: > > On 2017-09-12 20:41, Zane Healy wrote: >> What terminal emulators are currently available for Mac OS X that support VT >> emulation, specifically the emulation of the keypad? I p

[Simh] Terminal Emulation for SIMH?

What terminal emulators are currently available for Mac OS X that support VT emulation, specifically the emulation of the keypad? I previously used a script to reconfigure an X-Term, but I seem to recall the functionality in xterm was dropped. Zane

Re: [Simh] DECserver (terminal server) emulation?

If you did such emulation, would you include serial support, so a serial terminal could be attached to the computer running the emulator? If so, that would be seriously cool! Zane > On Apr 8, 2017, at 1:37 PM, Tim Stark wrote: > > Folks, > > I have a great idea

Re: [Simh] How to access RT11/FIles11 floppy images on Windows?

can’t kill PUTR until I pressed CTRL-F9 to kill DOSBox. > > Tim > > From: Zane Healy [mailto:heal...@aracnet.com <mailto:heal...@aracnet.com>] > Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 11:41 AM > To: Tim Stark <fswo...@verizon.net <mailto:fswo...@verizon.net>> > Subj

Re: [Simh] Free USER SPACE DECNET LAT MOP

On Feb 19, 2016, at 2:15 PM, Timothe Litt <l...@ieee.org> wrote: > > > On 19-Feb-16 17:10, Zane Healy wrote: >> You just caught my interest, BIG TIME! >> >> Do you have DECnet for RT-11? >> >> Zane >> >> >> > I don't,

Re: [Simh] Free USER SPACE DECNET LAT MOP

You just caught my interest, BIG TIME! Do you have DECnet for RT-11? Zane > On Feb 19, 2016, at 1:53 PM, Timothe Litt wrote: > > Just about every DEC network-capable OS is run here - from TOPS-10/20 to > RT-11. ___ Simh

Re: [Simh] TOPS-20 networking

ve the most fully developed > networking for using in a modern smh environment .. > >> On Feb 19, 2016, at 1:52 PM, Zane Healy <heal...@aracnet.com >> <mailto:heal...@aracnet.com>> wrote: >> >> Have the bits needed for networking on TOPS-20 V4.1 survived?

Re: [Simh] TOPS-20 networking

Have the bits needed for networking on TOPS-20 V4.1 survived? I didn’t even realize V4.1 was available. I’d personally recommend KLH10, and TOPS-20 v7. BTW, I’m honestly surprised that you’ve never run TOPS-20, I’d have thought you’d be one person to have. :-) I assume you’re aware of my DEC

Re: [Simh] EXT : Alpha under SIMH

The problem with FreeAXP (for me at least), is the host OS requirements. I don’t have any Computers running any of the required versions of Windows. Zane > On Feb 19, 2016, at 10:49 AM, Timothy Stark wrote: > > There is FreeAXP emulator. Google it. > > I installed

Re: [Simh] EXT : Alpha under SIMH

> On Feb 19, 2016, at 10:31 AM, Craig A. Berry wrote: > > >> On Feb 19, 2016, at 12:16 PM, Hittner, David T (IS) >> wrote: >> >> Not correct. Migration Specialties offers FreeAXP, which is a reduced >> performance Alpha. >> I don't know if

Re: [Simh] EXT : Alpha under SIMH

Am I correct that none of the Commercial solutions offer a “Hobbyist” emulator for the DEC Alpha anymore? Zane > On Feb 19, 2016, at 9:42 AM, Hittner, David T (IS) > wrote: > > No. SIMH Alpha is just the CPU, no system (motherboard) and no peripherals. > It is not

Re: [Simh] Alpha under SIMH

I’m glad you brought this up, as I was wondering the exact same thing. I have an XP1000 myself, that I would like to retire, as it’s normally powered down due to power and cooling constraints. The difference being, it’s a personal system, and not a business system, as such, I can’t afford

Re: [Simh] simh on RaspBerry Pi

> On Feb 15, 2016, at 7:13 AM, Wilm Boerhout <wboerh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Zane Healy schreef op 15-2-2016 om 16:08: >>> On Feb 15, 2016, at 12:47 AM, Wilm Boerhout <wboerh...@gmail.com> >>> <mailto:wboerh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>

Re: [Simh] VAX/VMS

> > On Feb 15, 2016, at 9:14 AM, Will Senn wrote: > > What is a good source to learn a bit about VAX/VMS and the relationship of > the VAX and PDP-11 architectures and programming differences? I looked at the > Wikipedia article. I'm not sure it is entirely accurate and

Re: [Simh] Stand alone FORTH interpreters

On Apr 21, 2015, at 6:30 PM, Davis Johnson da...@frizzen.com wrote: Does anybody have a stand-alone FORTH interpreter laying around that might run on any of the SIMH emulators? Mid to late 1980s the FORTH Interest Group's FORTH Implementation Team published a number of implementations