[Simh] FW: VAX780 ini file ...
Wilm Boerhout
w781 at planet.nl
Sat Jan 16 04:56:00 EST 2010
Patrick Finnegan mentioned on 14-1-2010 20:23:
> On Wednesday 13 January 2010, John Welsh wrote:
>
>> Thanks Jason,
>>
>> The ini file that I have shown below was correct.
>> I was attempting to boot a VMS7.3 vdisk !!!!! ( VAX780 last
>> supported VMS Version was V6.2). I built a fresh V6.2 vdisk using
>> Charon VAX 3900 Demo and this booted fine with SIMH VAX780. Yes it
>> needs VMB.exe from the SIMH distribution in the same directory as
>> the SIMH VAX780.exe.
>>
> I've booted 7.2 and 7.3 on a real 11/780, so it should be possible on
> the vax780 sim as well.
>
> Note that "supported" means what Digital would support you running, not
> what hardware was necessarily supported by VMS.
>
> Booting my 11/780 off a SCSI-attached CD-ROM drive with the Hobbyist
> V7.2 CD in it was probably one of the more perverse feeling things I've
> done with a classic machine... and I was amazed that it worked.
>
> Pat
>
If you look in the SIMH archives, you can find multiple occasions (also
by me) where it is reported that VAX/VMS 7.3 runs fine on SIMH 11/780
/Wilm
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