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

Since you're using a shared device, could virtualbox be doing a dos2unix thing to yo which side of the share did you write you're image to? Does it look the same from both sides? from my Galaxy Tab® A Original message From: Mark Pizzolato Date: 3/30/18

Re: [Simh] Install VAX/VMS 4.4 on a simulated VAX-11/780

If this is just for a one shot deal, it might be a lot easier to talk someone else into letting you into their VAX instead of dealing with all of this. After installing VMS, which is harder for the older versions, you will still need to install pascal. If this is for a longer term project, then

Re: [Simh] 101 Basic Games for RSTS/E (was Re: PDP11 on Simh for public access)

There is a project on gitnub called BLISS-M. Is it comparable with any version of bliss discussed here?  Never had BLISS on anything until long after it would have been useful. So how does BLISS compare to C as a systems programming language? Is it worth learning at this late date? Sent from

Re: [Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 168, Issue 38

The MicroVAX 3100 had a bug in the boot Rom that limited it to a 1.06? Disk. I don't know if it also occurred on other systems. Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original message From: Larry Baker Date: 1/25/18 7:17 PM (GMT-07:00) To: heal...@avanthar.com Cc: SIMH

Re: [Simh] 101 Basic Games for RSTS/E (was Re: PDP11 on Simh for public access)

Rsts basic+ has two modes. Extend and noextend, Noextend is the original mode, where 'line continues with a linseed and ends with a return. The & character works as a shortcut for print. Statements were separated with a colon : Extend mode was changed things around. It was a later addition.

Re: [Simh] PDP11 on Simh for public access

Now he needs to simulate the noise that the actual systems created. A couple of vacuum  cleaners would do nicely. Maybe three? Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original message From: Paul Koning Date: 1/23/18 7:46 AM (GMT-07:00) To: Johnny Billquist

Re: [Simh] Custom ROMs on PDP-11 sim

Can't you just load them into ram and run them from there?Rom is just non writable memory. Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original message From: Aaron Jackson Date: 12/15/17 10:37 AM (GMT-07:00) To: Mark Pizzolato Cc:

Re: [Simh] MicroSD Card for SimH on Raspberry Pi 3

If you're just starting off with a pi, it might be easiest to buy a kit, which includes all the necessary parts to get started, including power supply, case, heat sinks, HDMI cable, and a SIM card preloaded with an os. Available on Amazon, and many others.  Get a 32 or larger card if you want

Re: [Simh] Problem using a real VT terminal with simh

Have you configured the centos serial port to anything? It may be the problem. Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original message From: Peter Allan Date: 12/5/17 10:56 AM (GMT-07:00) To: simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: [Simh] Problem using a real VT terminal

Re: [Simh] Problem using a real VT terminal with simh

I'd suspect  a problem with the 8th bit being handled funny , maybe mark parity Are the characters in the right pattern to be vms prompts, and are they always the same?  If you can log  into linux fine on that terminal, telnet from there Into the emulator and see what happens. You can telnet in

Re: [Simh] C9.io

Do the free sites allow for constantly executing programs 24/7? Another option into avoid network hacks is to go old school, and p.ug it into a dedicated phone line using a modem, if anyone has working modems any more. Or get a second internet connection for this project, Isn't this sort of thing

Re: [Simh] Attach tar to tape device and access it from v7 in simh

Does V7 require a special version, or can you just download less from gnu.org? Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original message From: Mark Abene Date: 11/7/17 6:46 PM (GMT-07:00) To: Will Senn Cc: simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: Re:

Re: [Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 166, Issue 12

Quick test. Copy the tape into disk files using both drives, then compare the two files. If they come out the same, then it's something in backup. If they're different, you can look and see what bits are changed. If copy errors out on the team, then that's probably simpler to debug than backup.

Re: [Simh] 5 Questions (3 Questions Sire) About RSTS/E and Command Line.

If all else rails, you can always have them run simh under Linux. Assuming they have their own Linux boxes, or vm ... Many versions of Linux have an old version of simh for easy install (apt-get install simh) for Debian and Ubuntu, for example. You would only need to hand out a pre-built image

Re: [Simh] retargetable assembler

GMT-07:00) To: khandy21yo <khandy2...@gmail.com> Cc: Timothe Litt <l...@ieee.org>, simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] retargetable assembler > On Sep 6, 2017, at 9:21 AM, khandy21yo <khandy2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Reading the Wikipedia page about Whi

Re: [Simh] retargetable assembler

Reading the Wikipedia page about Whirlwind, it mentions that the pdp1 is a direct descendent, so would a pdp1 assembler work? Or a tx0 Assembler? I don't know if these already exist or not. Is the pdp1 a transistorized Whirlwind as the Wikipedia article suggests? We already have an emulator for

Re: [Simh] Simh and historical Fortran in the news

I know that there were some that did IBM one better. They destroyed the source for code that was still shipping. Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original message From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" Date: 7/13/17 5:46 PM (GMT-07:00) To: simh@trailing-edge.com Cc:

Re: [Simh] 8" Floppy disk image getting HALT error

If you're interested in WPS8 RX50 format, I have a program to READ rX50 images and convert the files to Wordperfect format.   Http://github.com/khandy21yo/emutools.git.  There's other stuff in there, but one of the subdirectories contains the source. It's been some time since I wrote it, so I

Re: [Simh] Idea for a Simh guide

Under Debian and Ubuntu, there is a package called live-build that can create a Bootable distribution that runs from DVD. You can include your own software in the build, but it takes a long time to build. It includes a lot of standard packages that you probably don't need. Runs entirely off the

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

Would it be easier to emulate a Dec server, or fix the Linux Decnet code? If you had LAT working well under Linux, then writing a Dec server would be a simple she'll script. Well, maybe not real simple to get all the details right, but not too hard. Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original

Re: [Simh] VAX 8200

I think  you need 1.2M floppy drives for this. I seem to remember THAT 360k drives don't work for reading RX50s. Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original message From: Paul Koning Date: 3/20/17 6:45 AM (GMT-07:00) To: Ethan Dicks

Re: [Simh] VAX 8200

It's also fun if they install a tape into the tk50 drive with the info pamphlet that they always shipped with them. It couldn't retract the tape, and you couldn't pull the paper out because of the tight fit. Time to disassemble the drive, again. Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original

Re: [Simh] VAX 8200

TSV05 or the unibus versions. Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original message From: Paul Koning Date: 3/17/17 11:23 AM (GMT-07:00) To: Wilm Boerhout Cc: simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] VAX 8200 > On Mar 17, 2017, at

Re: [Simh] Issues with VH simulation and 4.3BSD-Quasijarus

I used DHV11s on Microvax II when they we're real hardware. Worked fine under VMS.  I imagine DH11 wasn't different enough for them to not work on unibus. Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original message From: Clem Cole Date: 3/9/17 12:13 PM (GMT-07:00) To: Mark

Re: [Simh] CI750 tech docs and VAX firmware

Nows your chance to make it happen!  Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original message From: Rich Alderson Date: 3/7/17 12:37 PM (GMT-07:00) To: simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] CI750 tech docs and VAX firmware > From: Johnny Billquist

Re: [Simh] ts10 and mse (my new emulator)

Are PC speakers capable of being loud enough to simulate the fans on a 11/70? If it can't cause damage to your hearing, it's not loud enough. Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original message From: Lars Brinkhoff Date: 2/20/17 12:35 PM (GMT-07:00) To:

Re: [Simh] 32V on SIMH

In addition to what others have said, there are also programs like Kermit.Some terminal emulators have capture capabilities (logging) and some have the reverse option (transmit). Also, does 32v have ftp capabilities? Networking does work in simh. Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original

Re: [Simh] Looking for a RIM10B paper-tape image --> papertape reader/punch drivers on KS10

Fwiw I did a wps8 to wordperfect converter many years ago. Had a lot of wps8 disks and they wanted to switch. Had to decode the wps8 format by trial and error. Still have the code. Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original message From: Timothe Litt Date: 1/23/17

Re: [Simh] Reference performance benchmarks

Is your speed problem limited to disk access, or is it also CPU related? Running in a browser might mean that the disk access is going through the network, which can slow it down excessively, There are several bottlenecks on a system, like slow disks, that don't effect other aspects, like

Re: [Simh] XServers and Simh (Somewhat OT)

Linux works as a host for xterm  fairly well, depending on the terminal. It can also be used as an xterm I also offers  a pc. To start a window manager on a remote xterm  setenv DISPLAY xterm:0.0   mwm & Using Linux as an xterm usually requires enabling remote access, as most versions of Linux

Re: [Simh] RT-11 source

There is the Commodore64 OS. Didn't it leave the file system stuff to the disk drive? Is XXDP source available? that would represent a very simple OS. Cp// was available for several machines, but I wouldn't want to based a new OS on it. Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original message

Re: [Simh] RT-11 source

Is there a list of OS that have sufficient sources to rebuild it?Would be intresting to those who want to play.research OS designs.I suspect a lot of the old OS have lost their source code. --___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com

Re: [Simh] RT-11 source

CP/M works a lot like this. But it's for 8989 not PDP11. It's also been ported to several other systems. Source code is available, but many folks don't consider it an OS. Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original message From: Johnny Billquist Date: 10/22/16 7:11

Re: [Simh] Pdp8 terminals

Just curious,. Is there any thought about emulating any of the Dec mate Line? I used to deal with them, mostly as wps8. I don't know what the hardware differences are, but I saw a large number of Dec mates and only a few pdp8s. How compatible were they? Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A

Re: [Simh] Interdata OS/32 question

It could be many things. Without seeing the text, it will be hard to help you, On Debian, you can start 'script' before ssh to capture your session into 'typescript',. See 'man script' for detai,s. After exiting ssh, exit bash to close script. You could be dealing with a parity issue, or the

Re: [Simh] slightly off-topic where can I find the Compaq basic translator?

If you are talking about Vax basic, then I hate been playing with a basic to c++ translator in my spare time,. It may not do the whole job, but it might be easier than starting from scratch. It's on github called btran under khandy21yo. It  may, or may not work for you. There was a commercial

Re: [Simh] Question about card readers.

I once saw a IBM punch card that was small as a playing card, had three rows of 8? Punches, and held more than 80 characters. The operators actually used them as playing cards. Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original message From: Robert Armstrong Date: 05/26/2016

Re: [Simh] Way out idea for simh

The Kermit protocol isn't very comp,icated, is well documented, and has a lot of testing behind it. What happens in your protocol with characters that devices between you and the simulator mangle. Modems were a major frustration, now you have all sorts of   effort devices may do funny things

Re: [Simh] Way out idea for simh

Kermit has something ,Ike this built into it over the serial line. Look I to its remote commands. Doesn't need anything beyond the existing serial or console port. Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original message From: Ken Cornetet Date:

Re: [Simh] text from openvms

Most versions of Linux have a program  "dos2unix" and "unix2dos" for that problem. It may need to be installed, depending on which distribution you have. Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original message From: Bob Supnik Date: 03/25/2016 1:59 PM (GMT-07:00) To:

Re: [Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 145, Issue 52

Like a RSTS watch? Original message From li...@openmailbox.org Date: 02/16/2016 9:54 AM (GMT-07:00) To simh@trailing-edge.com Subject Re: [Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 145, Issue 52 On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:49:27 +0100 Johnny Billquist wrote: > On

Re: [Simh] OSs with accessible documentation

If you want to get serious about OCRing documents, look at how Project Gutenberg does ir,  ? After OCR each page goes through 3 passes of cleanup and formatting. Original message From Paul Koning Date: 02/06/2016 2:05 PM (GMT-07:00) To Tom Morris

Re: [Simh] [Announce] Emacs 21.2 for VMS/VAX

I always found emacs a bit of a pain on VMS because of its reliance on control characters. If Control/s didnt get caught by the OS, the terminal server would grab it. Original message From Ken Cornetet Date: 02/01/2016 6:50 AM

Re: [Simh] RSTS/E 10.1-L and Paper tape

Copyright laws werechanged to keep Mickey Mojuse protected many years back, anyrfing after 1820 is cmplicated. Many of the rules were changed. Oroject gutenberg has a lot mire information about it. Original message From Timothe Litt Date: 01/08/2016 1:19 PM

Re: [Simh] VAX sim: rqb address?

Would it be possible for tge error messages to dsplay tge fully expanded command that caused tge error as oart of the message! Yhis would also help debug ini files. Right now you just ger an error message witg  no contest. Original message From Mark Pizzolato

Re: [Simh] Problem with default builds

Wasnr rgere a recent change to tge SWMASK macro, Gcc peobably optimizes this reference, but dev c must not. Original message From Alan Frisbie fris...@flying-disk.com Date: 08/06/2015 8:53 PM (GMT-07:00) To SIMH@trailing-edge.com Subject [Simh] Problem with default builds

Re: [Simh] vector images

Long ago, there was an ooerating system for intel 8080 based machines called cpm. Many companies builf computers that  used this operating system, like the altair, imsai, osborne, kaypro, and vector graPhics to name a few. Many years later, the rimh altairz80 emulator was written with the

Re: [Simh] Off topic: ULTRIX question

Fwiw, netbsd was the first OS fully booted on simh vax. Vms took a lot more debuggibg.  Original message From Alexander Schreiber a...@thangorodrim.ch Date: 07/13/2015 4:29 PM (GMT-07:00) To Gary Lee Phillips tivo.ov...@gmail.com Cc simh@trailing-edge.com Subject Re:

Re: [Simh] PDP-10/RP06 Disk Image Size

Bad blocks Original message From Rob Doyle radioe...@gmail.com Date: 04/12/2015 11:07 PM (GMT-07:00) To simh@trailing-edge.com Subject [Simh] PDP-10/RP06 Disk Image Size I'm designing an RH11 disk controller for my KS10 FPGA. I'd like to use the SIMH data format for the

Re: [Simh] Sigma disk design notes

I wouldnt get too hung uo on only allowing combinations that real hardware allowed. I see no oeoblems eith plugging anrl02 image into a eqdx3, as .long as the software can habdle it. It may be useful doing conversions for examole. Sent from Samsung tablet Original message

Re: [Simh] MicroVAX II QVSS support problems in SIMH beta

Check the text console, thr screen terminal you booted on, and see where it is, If the emulator hasnt booted yet, you only see random garbage. You dont get to talk on the gui screeb umtil the cax is running. Sent from Samsung tablet Original message From Michael Kerpan

Re: [Simh] altairZ80 floppy disk binary files

Another series of machines based on the bigboaed are the Kaypro series of cpm machones. A good source of information about bigboard machines is the Microcornycopia magaxines, I think that they are acailacle online somewhere. That magazine also sold technical documents about the various

Re: [Simh] Possibly a n00b configuration error

If I remember correctly, simh started out with the ka655 version, which is the code from an actual machine. Then  thr rmulatoe was modifies to handle more memoet than a real machine rver had, and the ka655x version was cewares0d to deal with the extra eam. If you reduce the nenory configured,

Re: [Simh] Standalone boot on vax8600?

Might these umfinished operations cause problems? Unflushed disk buffers   during shutdown for example. Original message From Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm m...@infocomm.com Date: 07/10/2014 5:08 PM (GMT-07:00) To Cory Smelosky b...@gewt.net,Simh s...@alohasunset.com Cc