Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: CI Code Released

If you want to run your MV3100 licenses on the SIMH VAX, set the SIMH VAX to be a VAXserver3900 (see SIMH FAQ), which lowers the licensing requirements. OR you can get the VAX Hobbyist licenses which have unlimited license units. Dave -Original Message- From: Simh

[Simh] VAX 730 Console Tapes [was: VAX 8200]

> What I started with, though, was managing 11/730s in the mid-80s and was > optimizing the order of files on the console tape to be in the order they > were requested, so a 30-minute boot process fell to under 5 minutes... nearly > all the time spent was doing serial transfers with far, far

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: VT240, VT340 and DS200/300 HW specs info

Richard, You weren't very clear identifying the objects of the "What are these?" question. I'll define all of the terms for clarity. DS200 - Digital DecServer 200, an old terminal server with 8x 25-pin RS232 serial ports with modem control DS300 - Digital DecServer 300, an later model

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: Problems with telnet and TOPS-10

You might even try setting the DZ to 7P (printable characters only). Dave -Original Message- From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Jordi Guillaumes i Pons Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2017 8:39 AM To: Ray Jewhurst Cc: simh Subject: EXT :Re: [Simh] Problems with

Re: [Simh] EXT : VAX SDL support?

The Qbus-based VAXen support the QVSS (black-n-white) video module cards, which were the basis of the original VaxStation I and were also compatible with VaxStation II's, III's, and 4000's. The SIMH QVSS uses SDL for visualization. This is a native DecWindows interface. To be honest, it's just

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: C9.io

You could also look at running a super-efficient 24x7 server at home to minimize your electric costs. In my last computer build where I was trying to maximize performance with minimal power use, I put together an E3 Xeon Server with ECC memory that pulls an average of 35W running a SIMH VM

Re: [Simh] Any chance of AXP for SIMH ?

I'm actually working on the Alpha implementation right now, during my not-as-free-as-I-would-like time. Why is it taking so long? --- The Alpha is amazingly complex, as you have to simulate the entire set of PC devices (JDEC memory, RT Clock, APICs, Serial Ports,

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: OpenVMS 7.3 and Python

If you can’t find Python satisfaction with OpenVMS VAX, you could try OpenVMS Alpha using the free Alpha emulator FreeAXP (http://www.migrationspecialties.com/FreeAXP.html) since your real Alphas are too noisy/hungry. You can either use the Alpha licenses from your hardware Alphas or get new

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: OpenBSD on Simh VAX 3.8-1 - Segmentation fault

So two follow on action items, now that the problem seems to be solved: 1) How can we work with this Linux vendor to provide a baseline SIMH 4.0 package instead of the older SIMH 3.8-1 package? 2) Should the instructions for downloading and building the latest SIMH that Mark provided be

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: OpenVMS 7.3 and Python

I agree with Dave L that your best bet is to search the Freeware CDs, particularly the earlier ones that were less Alpha/Itanium centric. Since I was the head of the DECUS Library for a time, I know that Python for VAX VMS was offered at one point, but I also remember that when the maintainer

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

It sounds like the serial port is trying to autobaud to determine the transmission speed. I would set the port forcibly to 9600 8N1 before connecting. SIMH does not set the baud on the real physical port AFAIK, it just interprets the characters 7b/8b. Dave From: Simh

Re: [Simh] EXT : simh not loading the video driver when compile with libcbl-dev

@sys$startup:decw$startup Put it in systartup.com if you want it every boot. From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Phil King Sent: Monday, May 14, 2018 1:03 AM To: simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: EXT :[Simh] simh not loading the video driver when compile with

[Simh] VAX 11/780 Model

It would be spectacular to see a printable model of the 11/780. It would be particularly amazing if the 11/780 model was a self-contained unit for the Pi Zero and have the board mounted internally in such a way that the external connectors for power, console serial adapter (DB9 or MMJ?)),

Re: [Simh] External bus interface

I suspect that you could create a cross-simulator "bus" using some common I/O carrier between simulators to allow them to communicate the bus state. As Bob states, it would be simulator-specific. If the simulators are running on the same OS host, a common bus could be simulated using a memory

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: VAX Tape Emulation?

You are not alone. I thought that myself the first time I saw it in GitHub. ;-) Dave -Original Message- From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Zane Healy Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2018 2:46 PM To: Paul Koning Cc: simh

Re: [Simh] DEC Alpha Emulation

Well, Migration Specialties is where the developer of ES40 went, anyway. :-) I'm working on the SIMH Alpha simulator. It is quite a complex beast, where the firmware required to power up the system to the chevrons (>>>) is an operating system of small Linux complexity even before you can try to

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

Dave -Original Message- From: Zane Healy [mailto:heal...@avanthar.com] Sent: Friday, February 2, 2018 1:50 PM To: Hittner, David T [US] (MS) <david.hitt...@ngc.com> Cc: "Vorländer, Martin" <m...@pdv-systeme.de>; SIMH <simh@trailing-edge.com> Subj

Re: [Simh] EXT : Alpha ES40 emulator

The ES40 emulator does have some issues, and development has been discontinued. From the ES40 home page: http://es40.org/Homepage Discontinuation Notice ES40 emulator development has virtually been halted since 2009. The lead developer of ES40, Camiel Vanderhoevenis developing both Freeware

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

So from a performance analysis perspective, what are the VUPS ratings of the VS4000-90 and the SIMH VAX running on the RX2800? That's (more or less) the Integer performance rating. David -Original Message- From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of gérard Calliet

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: winpcap problem

Due to subtle differences in Windows drivers, sometimes WinPcap can't see a NIC unless it has an IP address assigned to it (or some other protocol - that is, that the NIC should appear to be "active" to the host). Also, certain version of WinPcap had issues adding NICs, and the solution was to

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

VMware has put some serious security enhancements on network ports in the last few releases to prevent spoofing and otherwise tighten network security to best practices. You might try enabling promiscuous mode on the vSwitch that you have the VM connected to and see if that solves the "two

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

IIRC, the large HSx controllers could define a controller offset number that was added to the individual drive numbers. This would allow multiple HSx controllers to have large non-overlapping disk ID numbering using 8-bit drive plugs: ie. HSx1 at offset 0 could have drives 0..255, HSx2 at

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

promiscuous mode, but you'll have to RTFM the VMware documentation. -Original Message- From: Zane Healy [mailto:heal...@avanthar.com] Sent: Saturday, June 8, 2019 4:48 PM To: Hittner, David T [US] (MS) Cc: Mark Pizzolato ; simh Subject: Re: EXT :Re: [Simh] VAX networking issue Thanks! Putting

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

: 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 emulator and Multinet network configuring On Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 11:14 AM, David T Hittner wrote: > > There probably isn't a way to set the host n

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

tough to 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 emulator and Multinet network configuring

Re: [Simh] EXT : VAXstation 4000 Model 60

>Why so many self-test errors? Because the simulator is relatively new, and getting it running an OS was more important than passing all of the diagnostics. It can be quite difficult to pass hardware diagnostics, particularly since some hardware diagnostics are timing dependent, which is tough

Re: [Simh] EXT : RSTS V10.1 doesn't like QNA

Yes. I had quite a few problems with RSTS and the DEQNA/DELQA(xq) and DEUNA/DELUA(xu) network cards while writing the xq and xu code. RSTS is the only operating system that attempts to verify the network card functionality by doing some deeper testing rather than just checking for expected

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

This was a user configuration issue, where the user accidentally turned off SIMH auto-configuration by explicitly setting an address/vector on another device, which broke the XUB controller. The issue has been closed by the OP. I took a look at the pdp11_xu.c code to see if I could spot any

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: Unattended background SIMH process

Mark can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that most of the SIMH simulators can already save the state (from the ^E prompt) and restore using the SAVE and RESTORE commands. I think this capability was added to facilitate very long debugging sessions over a multi-day period. It's possible

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: Various

My college, DePauw University (Greencastle, IN, USA), had a DEC card reader attached to their PDP-11/45 running RSTS/E, and later connected it to their new VAX 11/782(!) running VMS. They made all intro students in 1979 learn to use the card punch machines and submit programming jobs on cards,

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: Releasing terspy.mar - vax/vms terminal spy program

Oh no… management frequently asked VMS admins to ‘spy’ on general users for a few reasons back in the day, before the politically-correct era. - Make sure users were not defrauding the company [stealing inventory with illegal transactions, etc.] (without user consent) -

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: Mouse capture on VAXstation II/GPX (KA630) simulator V4.0-0 Current

Shouldn’t the configuration order be: set cpu model=vaxstationgpx set qvss enable; if required – I think ‘set cpu model = vaxstationgpx’ does this implicitly set qvss capture There may be some odd interaction if capture mode is enabled before setting vaxstationgpx.

Re: [Simh] VMS hobbyist license

>What would HPE do if the pak they released were posted anonymously with the >termination date removed? HPE would be within their full rights to prosecute anyone who strips the termination date from the PAKs and reposts with a new checksum. If you are just talking about reposting the original

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: EXT :Re: Mouse capture on VAXstation II/GPX (KA630) simulator V4.0-0 Current

and have lost color. Here's a screenshot. [cid:image001.png@01D5FE0D.37F12C40] On 3/19/20 1:25 PM, Supratim Sanyal wrote: On 3/19/20 11:09 AM, Hittner, David T [US] (MS) wrote: et cpu model=vaxstationgpx set qvss enable; if required – I think ‘set cpu model = vaxstationgpx’

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

Not sure if this will be helpful or not.. The SDL video subsystem error makes me think that they put in a patch that your current version of LibSDL has a problem with, or have applied some protection to prevent LibSDL from attaching to the Mac graphics console. You might want to check to see

Re: [Simh] EXT : MAME and simh

Why not use PuTTY for the VT terminal emulator, which is known to work with SIMH? What is the point of trying to use MAME for VT emulation? From: Simh On Behalf Of Peter Allan Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 9:34 AM To: Simh Trailing-Edge Mailing List Subject: EXT :[Simh] MAME and simh Hi

Re: [Simh] MAME and simh

PuTTY is a pretty accurate [free] VT emulator, particularly if you apply the non-default settings found in this Migration Specialties guide for OpenVMS and Tru64 Unix compatibility: http://www.migrationspecialties.com/pdf/PuTTY_Settings.pdf You could also select the original DEC MCS character