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Raspberry PI and PDP-11 emulation via SIMH

by b4＠gewt.net

On 2 Jan 2013, at 21:30, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote: On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: On 2 Jan 2013, at 21:13, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote: Hello! I received a Raspberry PI via a starter kit and via birthday gift, (for those of you who need to know Friday was my 50th birthday). I'd like to get the PDP-11 portion of SIMH running inside it without too much of a hassle. Any suggestions? I'd recommend starting with raspbian, and then installing all the requisites to build simh. Don't use the version in the repos. Which pi did you receive? The one with 256M RAM or one with 512M RAM? Incidentally this idea would include one or two physical serial ports. (Those serial ports would be the usual suspects.) I'm also interested in including the miscellaneous features, such as the ones called DR11C, DRV11, or these DR11W, DRV11WA. But I'm not at all sure how to go about enabling either of those four. The serials seem to be an almost easy fix, I simply need to connect the serial port functions on the R.PI GPIO functions to the specific ones in the INI file. Let me know what you find out, this would be very interesting to see the results of. I think, mind you, I think, this would be something of a reach. But in here, I believe I can find the answers. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." Will you be sticking the pi inside of a terminal? ;) -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project. Hello! The R.PI is the 512 version. And it won't be stuck inside a terminal. Not with what I'm planning for those miscellaneous connectors. It will be talking to a terminal program however. I take it the one in the repository is, ah, dated? Either it is dated, or the raspbian repository lacks it entirely. I forget which. As in particulars? I take it you mean installing the things to build things? Okay. I've already gotten the latest release of Debian on the R.PI installed and working. I'm more of a Slackware fan. I just finished about three hours ago dumping one gentleman's latest onto an 8Gig SDHC card and am going to try it possibly tonight. You'll want: apt-get install build-essential make unzip libpcap-dev. (bridge-utils and ump-utilities if you want to do bridging + multiple simh instances) Oddly enough installing stuff into a Debian based release of Linux is one reason why I took up with the Slackware set. ;) I'll certainly let you or the whole group know what happens. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project.

13 years, 2 months

Raspberry PI and PDP-11 emulation via SIMH

by gregg.drwho8＠gmail.com

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: On 2 Jan 2013, at 21:13, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote: Hello! I received a Raspberry PI via a starter kit and via birthday gift, (for those of you who need to know Friday was my 50th birthday). I'd like to get the PDP-11 portion of SIMH running inside it without too much of a hassle. Any suggestions? I'd recommend starting with raspbian, and then installing all the requisites to build simh. Don't use the version in the repos. Which pi did you receive? The one with 256M RAM or one with 512M RAM? Incidentally this idea would include one or two physical serial ports. (Those serial ports would be the usual suspects.) I'm also interested in including the miscellaneous features, such as the ones called DR11C, DRV11, or these DR11W, DRV11WA. But I'm not at all sure how to go about enabling either of those four. The serials seem to be an almost easy fix, I simply need to connect the serial port functions on the R.PI GPIO functions to the specific ones in the INI file. Let me know what you find out, this would be very interesting to see the results of. I think, mind you, I think, this would be something of a reach. But in here, I believe I can find the answers. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." Will you be sticking the pi inside of a terminal? ;) -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project. Hello! The R.PI is the 512 version. And it won't be stuck inside a terminal. Not with what I'm planning for those miscellaneous connectors. It will be talking to a terminal program however. I take it the one in the repository is, ah, dated? As in particulars? I take it you mean installing the things to build things? Okay. I've already gotten the latest release of Debian on the R.PI installed and working. I'm more of a Slackware fan. I just finished about three hours ago dumping one gentleman's latest onto an 8Gig SDHC card and am going to try it possibly tonight. Oddly enough installing stuff into a Debian based release of Linux is one reason why I took up with the Slackware set. I'll certainly let you or the whole group know what happens. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

13 years, 2 months

Raspberry PI and PDP-11 emulation via SIMH

by b4＠gewt.net

On 2 Jan 2013, at 21:13, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote: Hello! I received a Raspberry PI via a starter kit and via birthday gift, (for those of you who need to know Friday was my 50th birthday). I'd like to get the PDP-11 portion of SIMH running inside it without too much of a hassle. Any suggestions? I'd recommend starting with raspbian, and then installing all the requisites to build simh. Don't use the version in the repos. Which pi did you receive? The one with 256M RAM or one with 512M RAM? Incidentally this idea would include one or two physical serial ports. (Those serial ports would be the usual suspects.) I'm also interested in including the miscellaneous features, such as the ones called DR11C, DRV11, or these DR11W, DRV11WA. But I'm not at all sure how to go about enabling either of those four. The serials seem to be an almost easy fix, I simply need to connect the serial port functions on the R.PI GPIO functions to the specific ones in the INI file. Let me know what you find out, this would be very interesting to see the results of. I think, mind you, I think, this would be something of a reach. But in here, I believe I can find the answers. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." Will you be sticking the pi inside of a terminal? ;) -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project.

13 years, 2 months

unattended booting, was Re: [HECnet] DMC11 in next simh version... looks nice, and question about TOPS-10

by bqt＠softjar.se

On 2013-01-03 03:17, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2013-01-03 02:56, Dave McGuire wrote: On 01/02/2013 08:31 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2013-01-02 22:47, Dave McGuire wrote: On 01/02/2013 04:43 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: (BTW the "buffered console" feature in 4.0 is also awesome, specially to run headless simulators. Now if we could do an unattended RSX boot it would be wonderful!). Yes, an unattended RSX boot WOULD be nice. ;) You could probably do it with "expect". I did some work in that area several years ago. I remember I got pretty far with it. I should try to dig it up. I'm not getting it. What is the problem with unattended RSX boots? Not just RSX. For RSTS/E at least, date prompting and such. That stuff sits in LB:[1,2]SYSTARTUP.CMD. Get your self (or emulate) an 11/9x, and the date will be correct, and then you edit the startup to not ask the question, or ask it with a timeout... Or else don't worry about an incorrect date at startup. Unattended boot of RSX is trivial. Doh! The file is LB:[1,2]STARTUP.CMD and nothing else. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

13 years, 2 months

unattended booting, was Re: [HECnet] DMC11 in next simh version... looks nice, and question about TOPS-10

by bqt＠softjar.se

On 2013-01-03 02:56, Dave McGuire wrote: On 01/02/2013 08:31 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2013-01-02 22:47, Dave McGuire wrote: On 01/02/2013 04:43 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: (BTW the "buffered console" feature in 4.0 is also awesome, specially to run headless simulators. Now if we could do an unattended RSX boot it would be wonderful!). Yes, an unattended RSX boot WOULD be nice. ;) You could probably do it with "expect". I did some work in that area several years ago. I remember I got pretty far with it. I should try to dig it up. I'm not getting it. What is the problem with unattended RSX boots? Not just RSX. For RSTS/E at least, date prompting and such. That stuff sits in LB:[1,2]SYSTARTUP.CMD. Get your self (or emulate) an 11/9x, and the date will be correct, and then you edit the startup to not ask the question, or ask it with a timeout... Or else don't worry about an incorrect date at startup. Unattended boot of RSX is trivial. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

13 years, 2 months

Raspberry PI and PDP-11 emulation via SIMH

by gregg.drwho8＠gmail.com

Hello! I received a Raspberry PI via a starter kit and via birthday gift, (for those of you who need to know Friday was my 50th birthday). I'd like to get the PDP-11 portion of SIMH running inside it without too much of a hassle. Any suggestions? Incidentally this idea would include one or two physical serial ports. (Those serial ports would be the usual suspects.) I'm also interested in including the miscellaneous features, such as the ones called DR11C, DRV11, or these DR11W, DRV11WA. But I'm not at all sure how to go about enabling either of those four. The serials seem to be an almost easy fix, I simply need to connect the serial port functions on the R.PI GPIO functions to the specific ones in the INI file. I think, mind you, I think, this would be something of a reach. But in here, I believe I can find the answers. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

13 years, 2 months

unattended booting, was Re: [HECnet] DMC11 in next simh version... looks nice, and question about TOPS-10

by gregg.drwho8＠gmail.com

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 01/02/2013 06:20 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: However Dave for you to find it will require a shovel as it was deeply buried. You have no idea. Never having run Windows, thus without the periodic "wiping clean" of life that tends to happen when the OS shits the bed, I have stuff in my primary home directory that dates back to the 1980s. Nice! Anything interesting dating back to then? ;) Ohhhhh yes. =) It is a BIG filesystem. I'm assuming it's expanded from its original size in the 1980s? ;) Umm, a bit, yes. ;) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA Hello! Renting the black hole are we? Now be careful, shaking it will cause everything to fall out and in no special order. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

13 years, 2 months

unattended booting, was Re: [HECnet] DMC11 in next simh version... looks nice, and question about TOPS-10

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On 01/02/2013 06:20 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: However Dave for you to find it will require a shovel as it was deeply buried. You have no idea. Never having run Windows, thus without the periodic "wiping clean" of life that tends to happen when the OS shits the bed, I have stuff in my primary home directory that dates back to the 1980s. Nice! Anything interesting dating back to then? ;) Ohhhhh yes. =) It is a BIG filesystem. I'm assuming it's expanded from its original size in the 1980s? ;) Umm, a bit, yes. ;) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

13 years, 2 months

unattended booting, was Re: [HECnet] DMC11 in next simh version... looks nice, and question about TOPS-10

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On 01/02/2013 08:31 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2013-01-02 22:47, Dave McGuire wrote: On 01/02/2013 04:43 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: (BTW the "buffered console" feature in 4.0 is also awesome, specially to run headless simulators. Now if we could do an unattended RSX boot it would be wonderful!). Yes, an unattended RSX boot WOULD be nice. ;) You could probably do it with "expect". I did some work in that area several years ago. I remember I got pretty far with it. I should try to dig it up. I'm not getting it. What is the problem with unattended RSX boots? Not just RSX. For RSTS/E at least, date prompting and such. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

13 years, 2 months

unattended booting, was Re: [HECnet] DMC11 in next simh version... looks nice, and question about TOPS-10

by bqt＠softjar.se

On 2013-01-02 22:47, Dave McGuire wrote: On 01/02/2013 04:43 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: (BTW the "buffered console" feature in 4.0 is also awesome, specially to run headless simulators. Now if we could do an unattended RSX boot it would be wonderful!). Yes, an unattended RSX boot WOULD be nice. ;) You could probably do it with "expect". I did some work in that area several years ago. I remember I got pretty far with it. I should try to dig it up. I'm not getting it. What is the problem with unattended RSX boots? Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

13 years, 2 months

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