[Simh] SET CPU 48M ?

[Villy Madsen]

I believe that you also have to manually increase the memory amount in sysgen....

Villy

----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Pfau <pfau at nbpfaus.net>
Date: Friday, February 1, 2008 9:23 am
Subject: Re: [Simh] SET CPU 48M ?
To: simh at trailing-edge.com

> 
> Peter Moreton wrote:
> > I have OpenVMS 7.1 booted with the default 16M of memory. Out 
> of interest,
> > I added "SET CPU 48M" to the config file, and rebooted, and 
> $SHOW MEM
> > still shows only 16Mbyte of memory available. Is there 
> anything else I
> > need to do to get this extra memory available to VMS. (I tried
> > AUTOGEN'ing, to no avail)
> 
> I believe you have to load the alternate firmware file.  
> ka655.bin is the
> original 3900 microcode that only supports 16M of memory.  
> ka655x.bin is
> slightly modified to allow up to 64MB of memory.  It's all 
> spelled out
> somewhere in the documentation.
> 
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