On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 13:58:59 -0800 Mark Pizzolato <[email protected]> wrote:
> You may recall that older computers didn't have a way to programmatically > power themselves down. > > VMS is one of those systems. > > When you shutdown a VMS system it closes all files and cleans up > everything going on in the operating system then it displays a message > which says something like "SYSTEM SHUTDOWN COMPLETE - USE THE CONSOLE TO > HALT THE SYSTEM" and then it goes into an infinite loop with interrupts > disabled. The simulator detects this condition which will never produce > useful results from the simulated system again without operator > intervention and allows you to do that. > > Would you want it to behave differently? Personally, no. When I shutdown VMS and I get back to a SIMH prompt that tells me everything happened the way I wanted/expected. I quit from SIMH and all is well. > > From: Simh [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill > Cunningham Sent: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 1:46 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Simh] error > > After using shutdown on my virtual VMS, it dropped to the simh prompt > and had this error. > > Infinite loop, PC833DC8D3 (BRB ...) > and the same hex number were the ... is. What does that mean? > > Bill > _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
