Matt Burke put together a 782 simulator. It's available at 9track.net I've never tried it though.
Ray On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 8:46 PM Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se> wrote: > VAX-11/730 with a PDP-8 FEP would have been a rather odd creature. > > But VMS V2.4 sounds plausible for 1978. V3 or V4 feels like they should > have been later. > > The VAX-11/782 was actually a multiprocessor VAX-11/780. Shared memory, > but it was ASMP. Simh cannot emulate that one. However, you'll get > mostly the same feeling with just a VAX-11/780 instead. > > There are no license manager for such old versions of VMS, so they will > run no matter if you have PAKs or not. > > The FORTRAN compiler was, I would guess, FORTRAN-IV-PLUS. Which was a > DEC variant. Essentially FORTRAN-IV on stereoids. Lots of things that > was in there eventually turned up in FORTRAN-77 as well. > > And yes, I think most people agree it is "Vaxen". > > Johnny > > On 2020-03-23 01:20, Dan Gahlinger wrote: > > I believe it was a Vax 730 with a PDP-8 FEP, inside the main chassis it > > actually had a part labelled (in big letters) "FUBAR" 🙂 > > > > If I remember correctly, it ran VMS v2.4 > > > > The Vax I have the most memories of though, which I'd also like to > simulate, > > was a Vax 782 (two 780s clustered I believe), and I'm not entirely sure > > of the VMS version, could be v3.2 or v4.2 > > > > People here would know which version was most likely in (guessing mid) > > 1978 in North America (Ontario/Canada at Western University (UWO)). > > I have lots of printouts, but I'm not sure I ever captured the version. > > > > Of course, I'll need the VMS images (which I may have) and the PAKs for > > these versions... > > > > For sentimental/nostalgic purposes... > > > > I remember Fortran on the 782 was kinda wonky at the time, it didn't > > seem to be able to make up its mind whether it was Fortran/IV or > > Fortran-77 🙂 > > > > Note: someone decades ago told me the plural for Vax was "Vaxen", and it > > just stuck... > > > > Dan. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Simh mailing list > > Simh@trailing-edge.com > > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > > > > -- > Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus > || on a psychedelic trip > email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books > pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
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