[Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 40, Issue 6
Bill Pechter
pechter at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 12:11:01 EST 2007
One of the fun things is to boot either 2.11BSD or v7 Unix on a PDP11
and show how small and primitive "real" Unix is...
'Course showing them an emulated VAX with VAX/VMS or 4.x BSD also works.
NetBSD Vax is also slick.
Bill
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> 1. Any recommendations for a simh demo/presentation? #$
> (Carey Tyler Schug)
> 2. Re: Example configuration file for the VAX 11/780 emulator
> (Kierstein, Barry)
> 3. Re: Any recommendations for a simh demo/presentation? #$
> (Emil Sarlija)
> 4. Re: Any recommendations for a simh demo/presentation? #$
> (Tim Pinkawa)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:00:11 -0600
> From: Carey Tyler Schug <SqrFolkDnc at comcast.net>
> Subject: [Simh] Any recommendations for a simh demo/presentation? #$
> To: SimH at trailing-edge.com
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> I've promised to do a presentation on the Hercules mainframe emulator
> next month, and thought it might be nice to include a short section on
> SimH also.
>
> Although I've been on the list for a while, I haven't been reading
> except rarely, and haven't done anything with SimH yet.
>
> ---------------
>
> First, does anybody want to recommend an emulated platform and a
> something to run under it that would be impressive to show?
>
> Second, do any platforms have ports of Linux or other free and
> open-source operating systems? That is because this presentation will
> be to a Linux group.
>
> --
> --Carey Tyler Schug
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:27:20 -0500
> From: "Kierstein, Barry" <Barry.Kierstein at hp.com>
> Subject: Re: [Simh] Example configuration file for the VAX 11/780
> emulator
> To: <simh at trailing-edge.com>
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> So far, this is working fine using 512MB of memory and OpenVMS V7.3.
> Thanks!
>
> Barry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Pizzolato [mailto:mark at infocomm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:59 AM
> To: Kierstein, Barry; simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: Re: [Simh] Example configuration file for the VAX 11/780
> emulator
>
>
> --- "Kierstein, Barry" <Barry.Kierstein at hp.com> wrote:
> > Would someone post their working configuration file for the
> > VAX 11/780 emulator? I see that a number of people have this
> > working, and am looking for the larger memory that the emulator
> > would provide.
>
> The MicroVAX KA655 emulator works with a memory configuration of
> 512MB. You need more than that?
>
> VAX simulator V3.7-0
> sim> set cpu 512m
> sim> show cpu
> CPU, idling disabled, 512MB, HALT to SIMH
> sim> boot cpu
> Loading boot code from ka655x.bin
>
> KA655X-B V5.3, VMB 2.7
> Performing normal system tests.
> 40..39..38..37..36..35..34..33..32..31..30..29..28..27..26..25..
> 24..23..22..21..20..19..18..17..16..15..14..13..12..11..10..09..
> 08..07..06..05..04..03..
> Tests completed.
> >>>show mem
> Memory 0: 00000000 to 00FFFFFF, 16MB, 0 bad pages
> Memory 1: 01000000 to 01FFFFFF, 16MB, 0 bad pages
> Memory 2: 02000000 to 02FFFFFF, 16MB, 0 bad pages
> Memory 3: 03000000 to 03FFFFFF, 16MB, 0 bad pages
>
> Total of 512MB, 0 bad pages, 128 reserved pages
> >>>
>
> Yes, the number of banks doesn't add up to the total, but the total
> is completely available for OS use.
>
> - Mark
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:35:14 +0000
> From: Emil Sarlija <emil at chookfest.net>
> Subject: Re: [Simh] Any recommendations for a simh demo/presentation?
> #$
> To: simh at trailing-edge.com
> Message-ID: <C0C3AFD6-43A1-40D9-89B8-95659DB43709 at chookfest.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
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>
> On 07/03/2007, at 5:00 PM, Carey Tyler Schug wrote:
> >
> > Second, do any platforms have ports of Linux or other free and
> > open-source operating systems? That is because this presentation will
> > be to a Linux group.
>
> You can always run NetBSD on the VAX simulator. A HOWTO can be found
> at http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/vax/emulator-howto.html
>
> Have fun!
> Emil
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:55:58 -0600
> From: "Tim Pinkawa" <timpinkawa at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Simh] Any recommendations for a simh demo/presentation?
> #$
> To: Simh at trailing-edge.com
> Message-ID:
> <ec8c4fce0703071055t45b95013i95609686e2cc37cb at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> On 3/7/07, Carey Tyler Schug <SqrFolkDnc at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I've promised to do a presentation on the Hercules mainframe emulator
> > next month, and thought it might be nice to include a short section on
> > SimH also.
> >
> > Although I've been on the list for a while, I haven't been reading
> > except rarely, and haven't done anything with SimH yet.
> >
> > ---------------
> >
> > First, does anybody want to recommend an emulated platform and a
> > something to run under it that would be impressive to show?
> >
> > Second, do any platforms have ports of Linux or other free and
> > open-source operating systems? That is because this presentation will
> > be to a Linux group.
> >
> > --
> > --Carey Tyler Schug
>
> I gave a presentation to a local Linux Users Group in 2005 on
> Hercules, SIMH, and some other emulators available for Linux. As far
> as Simh goes, they got a kick out of seeing UNIX v5 (over 30 years
> old) running on an emulated PDP-11.
>
> Here are the slides from my presentation in PDF. Simh slides start on page
> 19.
> http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/lug/guides/emulinux.pdf
>
> As far as modern operating systems go, NetBSD and OpenBSD are
> currently maintained on VAX (as Emil said), but I don't think any Simh
> hardware has had Linux ported to it.
>
> Tim
>
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