I know very little about VMS, but I found this to be a great guide: http://kuhl-us.com/gadgets/retrocomputing/vax-simh.html
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:20 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks > > My questions are so basic that there must be a FAQ someplace that would > answer them. But I can't find one. > > To get started. I have managed to get the SimH VAX simulator running on > Linux (Ubuntu 11.04). I am totally impressed and offer my thanks to the > team that did the good work. > > Now I'm attempting to import Licenses from Ubuntu. I "select all" and > "cut" from gedit and then "paste" into the GNOME terminal where I have > started COPY TT: LICENSE.COM. But all kinds of unprintable characters > are inserted into LICENSE.COM so that the COM file can't be executed. > Obviously the wrong thing to do. Suggestions? > > My second question is a bit more general. After I get the licenses loaded > I want to install TCP/IP .. it's part of the .iso file I got from HP. But > how do I set up SimH? I've Googled a lot and there seems to be several > approaches that have been developed over the years. I can't figure out > what's current. Primarily I'm looking for a way to get data into VAX, > COMs, ZIPs and EXEs. I'd forgotten that VMS takes a lot of customizing to > run smoothly. > > And that question leads to DECNet. Does DECNet provide an easier way of > getting data in and out of VAX? > > Someday I'd like to see how Motif works, but that is future excitement. > I've seen very little comments on the net. > > Thanks, David. > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > -- Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com
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