Just thought I'd mention this - I just installed the Alpha-VM product by those Russian guys and have it configured as a 1 CPU ES40 with 512 MB RAM, no JIT CPU acceleration.
However, I decided to stick the system / data (this is a toy system, so only using one 20 GB disk image) on my SSD and the thing FLIES.
Even though VUPS.COM and WHETSTONE (not great benchmarks for Alphas I know, but I was just doing some ballpark numbers) show that the box should be 5x slower than CHIMPY, it feels just as a fast or ever faster..
I think in a few years it'll be possible to run some pretty beefy Alpha boxes on a combo of SSD storage and commodity Intel server hardware (almost considering migrating CHIMPY onto this box to save on power :)
Now if I only had a license for their 4 core, JIT compiled version that supports like 16 GB of RAM..Sigh...
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On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 12/14/2013 11:07 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I think I might need a new rx50...or to find the correct cable.
rx0: attempt to get status failed: unit offline (not mounted) (code 3, subcode 1)
It has 2 disks in it...but I might be using the wrong cable.
Remember, no "twist" in the RX50 cable...it has to be straight-through.
I assume you're using this on the RQDX3 I gave you? Are you using a
proper breakout panel for it, like the one from the defunct BA23?
(let's move this purely to DECtec before Johnny gets all anti-social
on us...Hi Johnny! *poke* ;))
-Dave
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On 12/14/2013 11:07 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I think I might need a new rx50...or to find the correct cable.
rx0: attempt to get status failed: unit offline (not mounted) (code 3, subcode 1)
It has 2 disks in it...but I might be using the wrong cable.
Remember, no "twist" in the RX50 cable...it has to be straight-through.
I assume you're using this on the RQDX3 I gave you? Are you using a
proper breakout panel for it, like the one from the defunct BA23?
(let's move this purely to DECtec before Johnny gets all anti-social
on us...Hi Johnny! *poke* ;))
-Dave
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Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 11:02 PM
To: DEC discussion list.; hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: [HECnet] Re: [DECtec] disk loading success
On 12/14/2013 08:02 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
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From: DECtec [dectec-bounces at dectec.info] on behalf of Dave McGuire [mcguire at neurotica.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 5:16 PM
To: DEC discussion list.; hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: [DECtec] disk loading success
Then, armed with confidence from that success, I dismounted and
unplugged the RA90 from the VAX-7000 and plugged it into a PDP-11/44
(2MB, FPP, CIS, UDA50) and booted it. That worked too! =)
This makes me really want to get my 11/44 working...and get the UDA50 I'm owed.
I'll also need an SDI drive and cable...or 3.
(Now of course I could do the same with a Qbus PDP-11, with a KDA50
SDI controller.)
My first desire was to do the actual RSTS/E install under simh on the
VAX-7000 directly to the raw device, but that crashed for reasons
unknown. Mark Pizzolato told me that it was unlikely to work, so I may
not investigate that any further.
Tonight, I will likely put together a VAX4000-700 in a BA440 chassis
with DSSI drives. Into that I will put a KDA50 (I have an S-box KDA50
distribution panel) and use that in the role of the VAX-7000 for this
type of stuff in the future.
If I could convince you to spare an SDI disk, I could have you write images for me! ;)
I am looking to have MORE SDI-interfaced drives, not fewer. ;) I just
lost one the other day, if you recall.
Understandable. ;)
I think I might need a new rx50...or to find the correct cable.
rx0: attempt to get status failed: unit offline (not mounted) (code 3, subcode 1)
It has 2 disks in it...but I might be using the wrong cable.
-Dave
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On 12/14/2013 08:02 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
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From: DECtec [dectec-bounces at dectec.info] on behalf of Dave McGuire [mcguire at neurotica.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 5:16 PM
To: DEC discussion list.; hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: [DECtec] disk loading success
Then, armed with confidence from that success, I dismounted and
unplugged the RA90 from the VAX-7000 and plugged it into a PDP-11/44
(2MB, FPP, CIS, UDA50) and booted it. That worked too! =)
This makes me really want to get my 11/44 working...and get the UDA50 I'm owed.
I'll also need an SDI drive and cable...or 3.
(Now of course I could do the same with a Qbus PDP-11, with a KDA50
SDI controller.)
My first desire was to do the actual RSTS/E install under simh on the
VAX-7000 directly to the raw device, but that crashed for reasons
unknown. Mark Pizzolato told me that it was unlikely to work, so I may
not investigate that any further.
Tonight, I will likely put together a VAX4000-700 in a BA440 chassis
with DSSI drives. Into that I will put a KDA50 (I have an S-box KDA50
distribution panel) and use that in the role of the VAX-7000 for this
type of stuff in the future.
If I could convince you to spare an SDI disk, I could have you write images for me! ;)
I am looking to have MORE SDI-interfaced drives, not fewer. ;) I just
lost one the other day, if you recall.
-Dave
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New Kensington, PA
Hello,
I FINALLY got a disk controller to work in my VAX. It's the RQDX3 as I don't yet have an SDI disk. (If someone could spare one, that'd be mUCH APPRECIATED)
Is there any way I can format the disk for the RQDX3 without XXDP on a -11 or a VAXstation 2000? (Neither of which I currently have/or are operational)
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From: DECtec [dectec-bounces at dectec.info] on behalf of Dave McGuire [mcguire at neurotica.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 5:16 PM
To: DEC discussion list.; hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: [DECtec] disk loading success
Then, armed with confidence from that success, I dismounted and
unplugged the RA90 from the VAX-7000 and plugged it into a PDP-11/44
(2MB, FPP, CIS, UDA50) and booted it. That worked too! =)
This makes me really want to get my 11/44 working...and get the UDA50 I'm owed.
I'll also need an SDI drive and cable...or 3.
(Now of course I could do the same with a Qbus PDP-11, with a KDA50
SDI controller.)
My first desire was to do the actual RSTS/E install under simh on the
VAX-7000 directly to the raw device, but that crashed for reasons
unknown. Mark Pizzolato told me that it was unlikely to work, so I may
not investigate that any further.
Tonight, I will likely put together a VAX4000-700 in a BA440 chassis
with DSSI drives. Into that I will put a KDA50 (I have an S-box KDA50
distribution panel) and use that in the role of the VAX-7000 for this
type of stuff in the future.
If I could convince you to spare an SDI disk, I could have you write images for me! ;)
-Dave
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[Please forgive the cross-post...I don't think all of the "social"
people on the HECnet list are actually on the DECtec list (yet). I
believe this to be a general-interest post.]
I just did something cool. I've long been in need of a more
convenient way of loading up system disks for real PDP-11 and VAX
systems, and I've finally come up with one. It's dead simple.
Initially I had wanted to set up a MicroVAX running NetBSD for stuff
like this, but NetBSD/vax has had a lot of problems in more recent
releases, and is becoming rather slow and bloated. (I never thought I'd
see myself say that about NetBSD...I've been running it since v0.9!)
Yesterday I fired up a simh PDP-11 instance, installed RSTS/E v10.1 on
an RA90-sized disk image, and used Linux' DECnet support to copy it over
to my VAX-7000. The VAX-7000 has an HSJ50-based disk subsystem, but it
also has a pair of KDM70 SDI controllers. It is running VMS v7.3.
I plugged an RA90 into the VAX-7000, did a mount/foreign on it, and
copied the disk image over to the raw device. I started up a simh
PDP-11 on the VAX-7000, attached device rq0 to the raw physical RA90
drive, and booted it. It booted and ran normally!
Then, armed with confidence from that success, I dismounted and
unplugged the RA90 from the VAX-7000 and plugged it into a PDP-11/44
(2MB, FPP, CIS, UDA50) and booted it. That worked too! =)
(Now of course I could do the same with a Qbus PDP-11, with a KDA50
SDI controller.)
My first desire was to do the actual RSTS/E install under simh on the
VAX-7000 directly to the raw device, but that crashed for reasons
unknown. Mark Pizzolato told me that it was unlikely to work, so I may
not investigate that any further.
Tonight, I will likely put together a VAX4000-700 in a BA440 chassis
with DSSI drives. Into that I will put a KDA50 (I have an S-box KDA50
distribution panel) and use that in the role of the VAX-7000 for this
type of stuff in the future.
-Dave
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New Kensington, PA
CHIMPY:: VT100 Tetris Challenge -
THE END IS NIGH!
Just over two more weaks to try to beat our resident Tetris Ninjas,
Mike Holmes and Mark Wickens.
It IS doable, so SET HOST to CHIMPY and log on as TETRIS.
PS: If you DO get a high score, make sure you SCREENSHOT the part where
it asks you to enter your name - then send the screenshot and your details
to tetris100 at sampsa.com, as otherwise I have no IDEA whom to disturbe the
prizes and certificates to. Yes, cash prizes guys AND you'll be a certified
Tetris Ninja.
