[Simh] NetBSD5.0.2

[Peter Svensson]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Jason Stevens wrote:

> Well getting back to the start of the thread, what I've done here is
> regressed the idle code to include an "OLDVMS" option which set the idle
> timings and hook to the old pre 3.8-1 levels, allowing things like 4.2 BSD,
> and other BSD's to idle correctly.....
> 
> Note that this is *FAR* from tested, as I just built it under MinGW and
> booted up the NetBSD 5.0.2 miniroot, and as soon as it's done it's thing
> it'll idle on my laptop (windows 7 , x64) at 0%
> 
> The patch is here:
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/simh/files/Unofficial%20Patches/3.8.1/regressed-vax-idle.zip/download
> 
> Although I can verify that it seems to 'work' right on windows, when I
> compile the same patch on OSX I get 50% cpu utilization....
> 
> Oh well I guess it's worth something.

Was this with or without the other vax idle patch (correcting interaction 
with console and other background polling events) already applied?

Peter