[Simh] FW: VAX780 ini file ...

[John Welsh]

Thanks guys for your replies ...

	I have installed VMS 7.3 on SIMH VAX780.  It turns out my
	original V7.3 CD vdisk was faulty - full of zero's!!!  Using the
	LDdriver seems to be the best way to create a vdisk CD.

Best regards,
John Welsh.
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-----Original Message-----
From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com
[mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com]On Behalf Of Wilm Boerhout
Sent: Saturday, 16 January 2010 8:56
To: simh at trailing-edge.com
Subject: Re: [Simh] FW: VAX780 ini file ...


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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