9 Apr
2026
9 Apr
'26
3:24 p.m.
/me slaps forehead
The 11/70's FP board set is flaky, and it has been removed pending
repair. I had forgotten about that. But the "hello world" program
shouldn't use any FP instructions..?
I don't think I can get over to LSSM today, but I will be working
there tomorrow.
-Dave
On 4/8/26 19:59, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Error 2, by the way is usually for one of three
reasons:
1. Task failed at the SVTK$S call (not able to install trap catching for
various traps)
2. Task uses FP instructions, but task was build without /FP, or system
lacks FP hardware support.
3. FCS initialization failure.
Most likely problem would be #2.
Johnny
On 2026-04-08 22:23, Dave McGuire wrote:
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hey folks, before I start digging into this, I figured I'd ask
here. A simple "hello world" program in F77 on RSX-11M-PLUS fails to
start thusly:
$ run hello
TT3 -- Exiting due to ERROR 2
Task initialization failure
I was trying to move a larger FORTRAN program to this system (the
11/70 at LSSM) and it was dying with this message, so I wrote a
quickie test case to narrow it down. It's just a write to unit 5:
WRITE(5,10)
10 FORMAT(' Hello World!')
END
...compiled with "FORTRAN HELLO", and linked with:
L HELLO,LB:[1,1]F77FCS/LIB
No warnings or errors. It runs fine on my 11/83 at home with a
very similar config. Before I dig in, can anyone quickly point me to
what I'm missing?
Thanks,
-Dave