On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Jason Stevens wrote: > Well getting back to the start of the thread, what I've done here is > regressed the idle code to include an "OLDVMS" option which set the idle > timings and hook to the old pre 3.8-1 levels, allowing things like 4.2 BSD, > and other BSD's to idle correctly..... > > Note that this is *FAR* from tested, as I just built it under MinGW and > booted up the NetBSD 5.0.2 miniroot, and as soon as it's done it's thing > it'll idle on my laptop (windows 7 , x64) at 0% > > The patch is here: > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/simh/files/Unofficial%20Patches/3.8.1/regressed-vax-idle.zip/download > > Although I can verify that it seems to 'work' right on windows, when I > compile the same patch on OSX I get 50% cpu utilization.... > > Oh well I guess it's worth something.
Was this with or without the other vax idle patch (correcting interaction with console and other background polling events) already applied? Peter _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
