Hi Tom, While I have not tried Tops-20 on the KS10, I do have versions 2 through 7 running on my unreleased KL10 simulator. I am still resolving issues, I should be releasing it in a month or two.
I think you need to hit ^C after the NO SYSJOB. Rich > I'm a new simh user, and have mostly been using it to relive my youth > on PDP-11s. But I also had played with TOPS-20 back in those misspent > days, and wanted to see if I could have my own, fully realizing that > SIMH can't run later versions of TOPS-20 because it simulates a > KS10. Still, I am having trouble getting past the first few steps of > the install. > > I am starting from the install document at > http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/pdp10/TOPS20/V4.1_Feb83/AA-P346A-TM_KS_Install_4.1_Feb83.pdf > > I have downloaded the install tape from > http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/tapes/bb-d867e-bm_tops20_v41_2020_instl.tap.bz2 > > I use this "install.ini" file (cribbed from > https://gunkies.org/wiki/Running_TOPS-20_V4.1_under_SIMH): > > set cpu tops-20 > d wru 006 > att tu bb-d867e-bm_tops20_v41_2020_instl.tap > set rp rp06 > att rp t20.dsk > boot tu > > at which point I'm greeted with the expected MTBOOT> prompt. I then > do: > > > MTBOOT> /L > MTBOOT> /G143 > > and basically say Y to all the questions: > [FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TYPE "?" TO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING > QUESTIONS.] > > DO YOU WANT TO REPLACE THE FILE SYSTEM ON THE PUBLIC STRUCTURE? Y > > DO YOU WANT TO DEFINE THE PUBLIC STRUCTURE? Y > > HOW MANY PACKS ARE IN THIS STRUCTURE: 1 > > ON WHICH "CHANNEL,UNIT" IS LOGICAL PACK # 0 MOUNTED: 0,0 > > DO YOU WANT THE DEFAULT SWAPPING SPACE? Y > > DO YOU WANT THE DEFAULT SIZE FRONT END FILE SYSTEM? Y > > DO YOU WANT THE DEFAULT SIZE BOOTSTRAP AREA? Y > > [STRUCTURE "PS" SUCCESSFULLY DEFINED] > > [PS MOUNTED] > ?PS UNIT 0 HAS NO BAT BLOCKS. > DO YOU WANT TO WRITE A SET OF PROTOTYPE BAT BLOCKS? Y > > %%NO SETSPD > > System restarting, wait... > > > At this point, the simulator just sits there for hours, never giving > the date/time question the installation guide says I should get > next. It does seem that the install process has at least initialized > the disk image, and if I reboot and tell it to skip all of those > filesystem initialization steps, it blasts right to the %%NO SETSPD > and "System restarting" steps, whereupon it hangs again. > > I'm running simh off of today's current git master branch. I have > compiled it both on FreeBSD and on Ubuntu 16.04 with identical > results (so I am not assuming it's just a FreeBSD incompatibility > issue). > > > I see plenty of old references to running TOPS-20 4.1 on SIMH, and no > such references to this apparent hanging of the simulator at a very > early stage in installation. Has anybody got this running? Am I > missing something blindingly obvious somewhere? -- ========================================================================== Richard Cornwell r...@sky-visions.com http://sky-visions.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-cornwell-991076107 ========================================================================== _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
