On 6/4/2012 12:58 PM, Rob Jarratt wrote: -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner- hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Paul_Koning at Dell.com Sent: 04 June 2012 17:26 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] Speaking of IDLE On Jun 4, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Brian Hechinger wrote: Sadly the updates didn't fix it for me. :( VAX simulator V3.9-0 /simh/rifter/vax.ini> set cpu idle Command not allowed -brian Silly question, but is "set cpu idle" actually the first thing in your ini file? Can you post the whole ini file? I'd have to check, but if I just run it with no ini file I still get that issue (and this is on latest and greatest Sol 11) wonko at larry:~/software/simh$ BIN/vax VAX simulator V3.9-0 sim> set cpu idle Command not allowed sim> -brian