[Simh] Basic questions

[Lennert Van Alboom]

Hello there,

I wrote up a small blurb on SIMH on debian - which should be pretty close to
your own setup.  URLs: https://vanalboom.org/node/18 (for basic setup),
https://vanalboom.org/node/19 (for clustering two SIMH VAXen).

Lots of info comes from the retrocomputing URL mentioned before.

Regards,

Lennert


On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 08:20:08PM -0700, david.d.miller at att.net wrote:
>    Folks                                                                      
>                                                                               
>    My questions are so basic that there must be a FAQ someplace that would    
>    answer them.  But I can't find one.                                        
>                                                                               
>    To get started.  I have managed to get the SimH VAX simulator running on   
>    Linux (Ubuntu 11.04).  I am totally impressed and offer my thanks to the   
>    team that did the good work.                                               
>                                                                               
>    Now I'm attempting to import Licenses from Ubuntu.  I "select all" and     
>    "cut" from gedit and then "paste" into the GNOME terminal where I have     
>    started COPY TT: LICENSE.COM.  But all kinds of unprintable characters are 
>    inserted into LICENSE.COM so that the COM file can't be executed.          
>    Obviously the wrong thing to do.  Suggestions?                             
>                                                                               
>    My second question is a bit more general.  After I get the licenses loaded 
>    I want to install TCP/IP .. it's part of the .iso file I got from HP.  But 
>    how do I set up SimH?  I've Googled a lot and there seems to be several    
>    approaches that have been developed over the years.  I can't figure out    
>    what's current.  Primarily I'm looking for a way to get data into VAX,     
>    COMs, ZIPs and EXEs.  I'd forgotten that VMS takes a lot of customizing to 
>    run smoothly.                                                              
>                                                                               
>    And that question leads to DECNet.  Does DECNet provide an easier way of   
>    getting data in and out of VAX?                                            
>                                                                               
>    Someday I'd like to see how Motif works, but that is future excitement.    
>    I've seen very little comments on the net.                                 
>                                                                               
>    Thanks, David.                                                             

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