Hello: I've noticed an odd issue. When booting the aforementioned baseline RSX-11/M+ disk, with 256K of memory, RSX-11 doesn't have enough RAM to work when it tries to run the startup script. This happens as the system doesn't have enough memory to allocate a checkpoint space; so RSX-11 gets stuck in an infinite loop repeating: <TIME> *** GEN Checkpoint space allocation failure Where <TIME> is the current time in HH:MM:SS format. The CPU is working, as you can see the time field counting properly. However, the simulator completely locks up otherwise; you can't Ctrl+E to the sim> prompt, you can't Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Z the program within RSX-11 itself. Trying to exit the SIMH simulator doesn't work. The only way to kill it is via the task manager (on Windows).
I'm using the 14 day old Windows binary. Currently this is happening on a Windows 7 Professional SP1 workstation at my university. I'll have to check on my W7 Pro SP1 desktop at home, just to see if it is a problem with this specific machine, or with the executable itself. Regards, Christian -- Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove STCKON08DS0 Contact information available upon request. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
