On 23 July 2012 17:42, Mark Benson <[email protected]> wrote:
> NetBSD 5.1.2 amd64 compiled SimH VAX from source using pkgsrc
> compilers and gmake compiled from pkgsrc.
>
> set cpu idle
> or
> set cpu idle=vms
>
> both return "Command not allowed"
>
> Is this expected?

NetBSD defaults to HZ 100, which causes simh to disable the idle
mechanism due to a too large idle granularity. If you are building
from pkgsrc the latest version (simh-3.9.0nb2) has this check relaxed
just enough to pass, allowing "set cpu idle" on a NetBSD host.
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