[HECnet] SIMH VAX memory weirdness

Sampsa, I'm pretty sure that the 3900 series machines only supported 64MB max and that is what you are emulating. -Steve -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Sampsa Laine Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 15:41 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] SIMH VAX memory weirdness Still only seeing 64 MB in the OS.... Sampsa On 28 Nov 2010, at 20:27, Oleg Safiullin wrote: On 29.11.2010 2:20, Sampsa Laine wrote: I just increased the memory on one of my SIMH VAX VM's to 512 MB from 64 MB - the system boots fine but SHOW MEMORY (under OpenVMS 7.3-1) still reports 64 MB. Do I need to tell the VMS installation about the new RAM somehow? How much RAM does 7.3-1 (VAX) support anyway? Sampsa Try to replace ka655.bin firmware with the following file: http://pdp-11.org.ru/~form/files/ka655x.bin