[Simh] VAX-3900 only autoboots if you have >64Mb??
Bob Armstrong
bob at jfcl.com
Thu Apr 14 09:42:12 EDT 2011
This sequence of simh-vax commands auto boots (as it should)
load -r ka655x.bin
set cpu 128m
... extraneous stuff deleted ...
dep -b BDR 0
boot cpu
but this doesn't -
load -r ka655x.bin
set cpu 48m
... the same extraneous stuff deleted ...
dep -b BDR 0
boot cpu
You don't get any errors, but instead of auto booting the MicroVAX firmware
just stops at the >>> prompt.
It looks like the BDR setting only works if the CPU is "extended" with
more than 64Mb of memory. That doesn't seem right - certainly a real
MicroVAX would be able to auto boot under these circumstances. Am I doing
something wrong, or is this a bug?
Thanks,
Bob Armstrong
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