3 Oct
2021
3 Oct
'21
8:31 a.m.
Recently Al Kossow made available a zip file containing a Micro/PDP-11
installation kit for Unix V7M-11 V1.0 on bitsavers as RX50 disk images.
Tinkering away here in Covid lockdown, I've managed to get this running
under SIMH pdp11 emulating an almost historically accurate PDP-11/23 plus.
I've placed the SIMH initialisation file, a couple of RD51 disk images and
an "installation recipe" for making these disks on GitHub at -
https://github.com/agn453/V7M-11
While I mainly had exposure to later versions of Unix and Ultrix-11 on
a PDP-11/70 as an undergraduate - this one surely brings back memories!
Tony
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Tony Nicholson <tony.nicholson at computer.org>
4 Oct
4 Oct
11:38 p.m.
Nice one.
I can't get the terminals working though, which is giving me flashbacks
to 1991 and trying to get to get a room full of terms up on a Convergent
Technologies Megaframe.
Its probably down to a simh version issue, as I have about 4 versions on
the go for various sims.
The Megaframe, by the way, was unused university kit that was still
powered up in the main machine room. It had the oper console connected,
and a load of serial lines running up to what had become a store room,
along with two lines connected to a board on our old Microvax II. We
blagged the room for the computing society eventually, got some terms
working. I think we got a mud to compile on it. When we shifted sites to
the sparkly new Tech Centre a few years later, it was deemed worthless.
It spent 5 years in my cellar, only to be desroyed due to flooding,
along with my Prime 2300.
On 03/10/2021 07:31, Tony Nicholson wrote:
Recently Al Kossow made available a zip file
containing a Micro/PDP-11
installation kit for Unix V7M-11 V1.0 on bitsavers as RX50 disk images.
Tinkering away here in Covid lockdown, I've managed to get this running
under SIMH pdp11 emulating an almost historically accurate PDP-11/23 plus.
I've placed the SIMH initialisation file, a couple of RD51 disk images and
an "installation recipe" for making these disks on GitHub at -
https://github.com/agn453/V7M-11 <https://github.com/agn453/V7M-11>
While I mainly had exposure to later versions of Unix and Ultrix-11 on
a PDP-11/70 as an undergraduate - this one surely brings back memories!
Tony
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Tony Nicholson <tony.nicholson at computer.org
<mailto:tony.nicholson at computer.org>>
11:55 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 8:39 AM Tony Blews <tonyblews at gmail.com> wrote:
Nice one.
I can't get the terminals working though, which is giving me flashbacks to
1991 and trying to get to get a room full of terms up on a Convergent
Technologies Megaframe.
Its probably down to a simh version issue, as I have about 4 versions on
the go for various sims.
It is probably a SIMH thing - given that there's been tinkering in this
area.
I'm using a recently compiled SIMH V4.0-0 pdp11 on both macOS and Linux
from the GitHub
repository at https://github.com/simh/simh
tony$ pdp11
PDP-11 simulator V4.0-0 Current git commit id: eadf1269
sim>
It's not too hard to build following a git clone and make pdp11 (under
macOS you'll need some extras from brew too - check the documentation)
Tony
5 Oct
5 Oct
12:03 a.m.
Yeah, it was. All fixed now. Sorry for being a moron.
On 04/10/2021 22:55, Tony Nicholson wrote:
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 8:39 AM Tony Blews <tonyblews at gmail.com
<mailto:tonyblews at gmail.com>> wrote:
Nice one.
I can't get the terminals working though, which is giving me
flashbacks to 1991 and trying to get to get a room full of terms
up on a Convergent Technologies Megaframe.
Its probably down to a simh version issue, as I have about 4
versions on the go for various sims.
It is probably a SIMH thing - given that there's been tinkering in
this area.
12:07 a.m.
Any advice on how to get a X10 graphical clock or terminal or desktop?
Currently have this; a graphics window pops up, how do I startx or
equivalent for X10? Thanks.
set qvss capture
;set qdss capture
set cpu model=vaxstationgpx
;set cpu model=vaxstation
set cpu 128m
;load -r ka630.bin
set cr dis
set lpt dis
set rl dis
set ry dis
set ts dis
set xq dis
set rq0 ra82
att rq0 quas.dsk
set rq1 dis
set rq2 dis
set rq3 dis
att tq0 quas.tap
set tti 7b
set tto 7b
att nvr nvram.dat
dep bdr 1
boot cpu
On 10/4/21 6:03 PM, Tony Blews wrote:
Yeah, it was. All fixed now. Sorry for being a moron.
On 04/10/2021 22:55, Tony Nicholson wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 8:39 AM Tony Blews <tonyblews at gmail.com
> <mailto:tonyblews at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Nice one.
>
> I can't get the terminals working though, which is giving me
> flashbacks to 1991 and trying to get to get a room full of terms
> up on a Convergent Technologies Megaframe.
>
> Its probably down to a simh version issue, as I have about 4
> versions on the go for various sims.
>
>
> It is probably a SIMH thing - given that there's been tinkering in
> this area.
>
>
>
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12:10 a.m.
Sorry, wrong thread, please ignore.
:(
On 10/4/21 6:07 PM, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
Any advice on how to get a X10 graphical clock or terminal or desktop?
Currently have this; a graphics window pops up, how do I startx or
equivalent for X10? Thanks.
set qvss capture
;set qdss capture
set cpu model=vaxstationgpx
;set cpu model=vaxstation
set cpu 128m
;load -r ka630.bin
set cr dis
set lpt dis
set rl dis
set ry dis
set ts dis
set xq dis
set rq0 ra82
att rq0 quas.dsk
set rq1 dis
set rq2 dis
set rq3 dis
att tq0 quas.tap
set tti 7b
set tto 7b
att nvr nvram.dat
dep bdr 1
boot cpu
On 10/4/21 6:03 PM, Tony Blews wrote:
--
Yeah, it was. All fixed now. Sorry for being a moron.
On 04/10/2021 22:55, Tony Nicholson wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 8:39 AM Tony Blews <tonyblews at gmail.com
> <mailto:tonyblews at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Nice one.
>
> I can't get the terminals working though, which is giving me
> flashbacks to 1991 and trying to get to get a room full of terms
> up on a Convergent Technologies Megaframe.
>
> Its probably down to a simh version issue, as I have about 4
> versions on the go for various sims.
>
>
> It is probably a SIMH thing - given that there's been tinkering in
> this area.
>
>
>
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