[Simh] SET CPU 48M ?

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 11:23:11 -0500, Thomas Pfau <pfau at nbpfaus.net> wrote:
> 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.

512MB is the maximum with ka655x.bin .

MfG, JBG

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