[Simh] SET CPU 48M ?

[Thomas Pfau]

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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