From paulhardy2 at btinternet.com Wed Oct 3 09:59:02 2012 From: paulhardy2 at btinternet.com (Paul Hardy 2) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 14:59:02 +0100 Subject: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? In-Reply-To: <0CC6789C1C831B4C8CCFF49D45D7010F83858BE470@REDROOF2.alohasunset.com> References: <000901cd886e$84416230$8cc42690$@btinternet.com> <0CC6789C1C831B4C8CCFF49D45D7010F83858BE470@REDROOF2.alohasunset.com> Message-ID: <000301cda16f$3e7a59e0$bb6f0da0$@btinternet.com> I've finally got round to trying the 3.9-0 VAX SIMH, and VAX.EXE crashes immediately (0C5 on address 0x077c3554a) on starting emulation (BOOT CPU), even if I don't use any INI file and just start an empty machine. This is on Windows XP. I have Winpcap 4.1.2, and reverting VAX.exe to the 3.7.3 version boots and runs OK. Has anyone else succeeded in running the VAX SIMH from the github link below? Regards, -- Paul Hardy web: www.paulhardy.net From: Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm [mailto:Mark at infocomm.com] Sent: 04 September 2012 04:37 To: Paul Hardy 2; simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: RE: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? Hi Paul, Simh V3.9-0 windows binaries which will work with or without network support (depending on whether WinPcap is installed) can be downloaded from: https://github.com/downloads/simh/simh/simhv39-0-Win32Binaries.zip - Mark From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Paul Hardy 2 Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 11:21 AM To: simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? I've been using 3.7.x for a while, and thought I should upgrade to 3.9, particularly in order to get network loopback from SIMH client (VAX) to host (Windows XP). I'm confused as to whether I can use the windows binaries on trailing-edge.com - in the past I think I had to explicitly acquire binaries with Ethernet support (I have WinPCap). It says: >> Download a zip file containing Windows executables for all the SIMH simulators. The VAX and PDP-11 are compiled without Ethernet support. So, where do I find binaries with Ethernet support for 3.9? Regards, -- Paul Hardy web: www.paulhardy.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com Sun Oct 7 13:04:53 2012 From: robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com (Rob Jarratt) Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 18:04:53 +0100 Subject: [Simh] Device Timing Question Message-ID: <028c01cda4ad$e039bc30$a0ad3490$@ntlworld.com> The device I am emulating appears to be running too fast for the driver that uses it and I need to get to grips with device timing in SIMH. I have never fully understood the use of sim_activate, in particular what are the units of time that are passed to this routine? Thanks Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Mark at infocomm.com Sun Oct 7 13:30:02 2012 From: Mark at infocomm.com (Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm) Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 10:30:02 -0700 Subject: [Simh] Device Timing Question In-Reply-To: <028c01cda4ad$e039bc30$a0ad3490$@ntlworld.com> References: <028c01cda4ad$e039bc30$a0ad3490$@ntlworld.com> Message-ID: <0CC6789C1C831B4C8CCFF49D45D7010F838DE29104@REDROOF2.alohasunset.com> Hi Rob, Simh device wait units are instructions. Usually a device has no specific knowledge about the significance of wall time vs instructions. To help solve this problem some methods exist to specify wait times which correlate with the simulated machine's clock ticks which are dynamically calibrated to produce a number of instructions per unit of time (clock tick). Devices usually behave well if wait units are aligned on clock ticks and doing this helps produce better 'idling' behavior. A device which wants to wake up on every simulated clock tick would code the following: extern int32 tmxr_poll; /* calibrated delay */ sim_activate (uptr, clk_cosched (tmxr_poll)); /* reactivate */ Good Luck, - Mark From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Rob Jarratt Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 10:05 AM To: simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: [Simh] Device Timing Question The device I am emulating appears to be running too fast for the driver that uses it and I need to get to grips with device timing in SIMH. I have never fully understood the use of sim_activate, in particular what are the units of time that are passed to this routine? Thanks Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jdbryan at acm.org Sun Oct 7 18:05:58 2012 From: jdbryan at acm.org (J. David Bryan) Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 18:05:58 -0400 Subject: [Simh] Device Timing Question In-Reply-To: <028c01cda4ad$e039bc30$a0ad3490$@ntlworld.com> References: <028c01cda4ad$e039bc30$a0ad3490$@ntlworld.com> Message-ID: Rob, On Sunday, October 7, 2012 at 18:04, Rob Jarratt wrote: > The device I am emulating appears to be running too fast for the > driver that uses it.... I've run into that problem several times before with the HP simulator. OS software assumes that a device interrupt cannot occur before a certain amount of time has elapsed after initiation, and dire consequences accrue when it does. As Mark noted, most devices are timed by instruction counts. For example, a TTY output device may output a character every 100 instructions. That provides for snappy screen output, but it is far faster than a real TTY operated on a real CPU (more on the order of a character every 100K instructions). With the shorter time, interrupts occur far more frequently than they did with real hardware, and unless the driver and OS software can accommodate the higher rate, there may well be problems. A simple fix is to work out how many instructions on the simulated CPU would elapse for a given device response time. In the TTY case, interrupts would occur every 100 milliseconds (based on 10 cps). An HP 1000 E-Series (for example) executed about 1580 instructions per millisecond, so setting the character output time to 158,000 instructions ensures that the driver and OS would see interrupts at about the same rate as the actual device would produce. A more involved fix is to trace the code path through the OS and driver to determine how long interrupt servicing takes (in machine instructions) and then use that value as a lower bound on the character output time. Timing I/O devices by instruction counts ensures that the target OS interrupt rate remains predictable regardless of the speed of the host system. However, some devices (e.g., a TOD clock) must interrupt at a rate related to wall-clock time. These are calibrated as Mark described. In addition to clocks, devices that poll for input, such as terminals, also use calibrated timers to ensure that the poll rate remains constant across a variety of host system speeds. > I have never fully understood the use of sim_activate, in particular > what are the units of time that are passed to this routine? "sim_activate" sets the time in the future (measured in target machine instructions) when a device's unit service routine will be called. For example, a TTY output routine might transmit a character and then call "sim_activate" to request that it be called again after 100,000 instructions have elapsed. When it is reentered, the next character is transmitted, and the process repeats until the entire buffer is sent. The main difference between SIMH I/O and real hardware is that there are no asynchronous operations. SIMH is event driven, and "sim_activate" establishes a list of events to process at varying times in the future. An I/O operation, such as a terminal write or a disc seek, is broken down into a series of sequential operations with differing elapsed times that are handled by a unit's service routine. As each is finished, the next is scheduled with "sim_activate" until the entire operation is complete. -- Dave From johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com Tue Oct 9 04:10:45 2012 From: johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com (John H. Reinhardt) Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 04:10:45 -0400 Subject: [Simh] pdp11.org.ru Message-ID: <5073DC05.4010202@yahoo.com> Does anyone know how to get in contact with the owner/manager of the website pdp11.org.ru? I was downloading some files from it about three weeks ago. From bqt at softjar.se Tue Oct 9 05:30:10 2012 From: bqt at softjar.se (Johnny Billquist) Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:30:10 +0200 Subject: [Simh] pdp11.org.ru In-Reply-To: <5073DC05.4010202@yahoo.com> References: <5073DC05.4010202@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <5073EEA2.5050700@softjar.se> On 2012-10-09 10:10, John H. Reinhardt wrote: > Does anyone know how to get in contact with the owner/manager of the > website pdp11.org.ru? > > I was downloading some files from it about three weeks ago. I believe that would be Oleg Safiullin. Contact me if you can't find an address for him. I think I should have one somewhere. Johnny From johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com Tue Oct 9 07:36:23 2012 From: johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com (John H. Reinhardt) Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 07:36:23 -0400 Subject: [Simh] pdp11.org.ru In-Reply-To: <5073EEA2.5050700@softjar.se> References: <5073DC05.4010202@yahoo.com> <5073EEA2.5050700@softjar.se> Message-ID: <50740C37.2020908@yahoo.com> On 10/9/12 5:30 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > On 2012-10-09 10:10, John H. Reinhardt wrote: >> Does anyone know how to get in contact with the owner/manager of the >> website pdp11.org.ru? >> >> I was downloading some files from it about three weeks ago. > > I believe that would be Oleg Safiullin. Contact me if you can't find > an address for him. I think I should have one somewhere. > > Johnny > Thanks. That was an oops. I had been having problems getting to the web site and had started composing an email when I was able to reach it again. I meant to hit delete and hit send instead. John H. Reinhardt From oboguev at yahoo.com Tue Oct 9 20:46:22 2012 From: oboguev at yahoo.com (Sergey Oboguev) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 17:46:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Simh] pdp11.org.ru In-Reply-To: <5073EEA2.5050700@softjar.se> References: <5073DC05.4010202@yahoo.com> <5073EEA2.5050700@softjar.se> Message-ID: <1349829982.82721.YahooMailRC@web184303.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> http://pdp11.org.ru/support.html ________________________________ From: Johnny Billquist To: simh at trailing-edge.com Sent: Tue, October 9, 2012 2:32:00 AM Subject: Re: [Simh] pdp11.org.ru On 2012-10-09 10:10, John H. Reinhardt wrote: > Does anyone know how to get in contact with the owner/manager of the > website pdp11.org.ru? > > I was downloading some files from it about three weeks ago. I believe that would be Oleg Safiullin. Contact me if you can't find an address for him. I think I should have one somewhere. Johnny _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh at trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paulhardy2 at btinternet.com Thu Oct 18 14:23:30 2012 From: paulhardy2 at btinternet.com (Paul Hardy 2) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:23:30 +0100 Subject: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? In-Reply-To: <000301cda16f$3e7a59e0$bb6f0da0$@btinternet.com> References: <000901cd886e$84416230$8cc42690$@btinternet.com> <0CC6789C1C831B4C8CCFF49D45D7010F83858BE470@REDROOF2.alohasunset.com> <000301cda16f$3e7a59e0$bb6f0da0$@btinternet.com> Message-ID: <000001cdad5d$ad23c9e0$076b5da0$@btinternet.com> Nobody has said that they have successfully used the 3.9 SimH VAX Windows binaries on github, and one other person has said that they tried and failed. Can Mark P or whoever is the current maintainer try rebuilding them please? Regards, -- Paul Hardy web: www.paulhardy.net From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Paul Hardy 2 Sent: 03 October 2012 14:59 To: 'Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm'; simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? I've finally got round to trying the 3.9-0 VAX SIMH, and VAX.EXE crashes immediately (0C5 on address 0x077c3554a) on starting emulation (BOOT CPU), even if I don't use any INI file and just start an empty machine. This is on Windows XP. I have Winpcap 4.1.2, and reverting VAX.exe to the 3.7.3 version boots and runs OK. Has anyone else succeeded in running the VAX SIMH from the github link below? Regards, -- Paul Hardy web: www.paulhardy.net From: Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm [mailto:Mark at infocomm.com] Sent: 04 September 2012 04:37 To: Paul Hardy 2; simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: RE: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? Hi Paul, Simh V3.9-0 windows binaries which will work with or without network support (depending on whether WinPcap is installed) can be downloaded from: https://github.com/downloads/simh/simh/simhv39-0-Win32Binaries.zip - Mark From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Paul Hardy 2 Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 11:21 AM To: simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? I've been using 3.7.x for a while, and thought I should upgrade to 3.9, particularly in order to get network loopback from SIMH client (VAX) to host (Windows XP). I'm confused as to whether I can use the windows binaries on trailing-edge.com - in the past I think I had to explicitly acquire binaries with Ethernet support (I have WinPCap). It says: >> Download a zip file containing Windows executables for all the SIMH simulators. The VAX and PDP-11 are compiled without Ethernet support. So, where do I find binaries with Ethernet support for 3.9? Regards, -- Paul Hardy web: www.paulhardy.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From toby at telegraphics.com.au Thu Oct 18 21:05:37 2012 From: toby at telegraphics.com.au (Toby Thain) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:05:37 -0400 Subject: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? In-Reply-To: <000001cdad5d$ad23c9e0$076b5da0$@btinternet.com> References: <000901cd886e$84416230$8cc42690$@btinternet.com> <0CC6789C1C831B4C8CCFF49D45D7010F83858BE470@REDROOF2.alohasunset.com> <000301cda16f$3e7a59e0$bb6f0da0$@btinternet.com> <000001cdad5d$ad23c9e0$076b5da0$@btinternet.com> Message-ID: <5080A761.6050804@telegraphics.com.au> On 18/10/12 2:23 PM, Paul Hardy 2 wrote: > Nobody has said that they have successfully used the 3.9 SimH VAX > Windows binaries on github, and one other person has said that they > tried and failed. Can Mark P or whoever is the current maintainer try > rebuilding them please? > > Regards, > > -- I've built them (for PDP-11 and VAX) successfully, and here is a howto if anyone wants one (though the bundled instructions are good enough). https://gist.github.com/3885865 --Toby From paulhardy2 at btinternet.com Fri Oct 19 06:49:05 2012 From: paulhardy2 at btinternet.com (Paul Hardy 2) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:49:05 +0100 Subject: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? In-Reply-To: <5080A761.6050804@telegraphics.com.au> References: <000901cd886e$84416230$8cc42690$@btinternet.com> <0CC6789C1C831B4C8CCFF49D45D7010F83858BE470@REDROOF2.alohasunset.com> <000301cda16f$3e7a59e0$bb6f0da0$@btinternet.com> <000001cdad5d$ad23c9e0$076b5da0$@btinternet.com> <5080A761.6050804@telegraphics.com.au> Message-ID: <001801cdade7$5c0710f0$141532d0$@btinternet.com> I've received a copy of the 11 & VAX binaries from Toby via Christian, and the VAX one works fine. This reinforces that the 3.9 binaries on github are broken. However, I'm OK now :) Regards, -- Paul Hardy web: www.paulhardy.net -----Original Message----- From: Toby Thain [mailto:toby at telegraphics.com.au] Sent: 19 October 2012 02:06 To: paulhardy2 at btinternet.com Cc: Mark at infocomm.com; simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? On 18/10/12 2:23 PM, Paul Hardy 2 wrote: > Nobody has said that they have successfully used the 3.9 SimH VAX > Windows binaries on github, and one other person has said that they > tried and failed. Can Mark P or whoever is the current maintainer try > rebuilding them please? > > Regards, > > -- I've built them (for PDP-11 and VAX) successfully, and here is a howto if anyone wants one (though the bundled instructions are good enough). https://gist.github.com/3885865 --Toby From Mark at infocomm.com Fri Oct 19 09:52:30 2012 From: Mark at infocomm.com (Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 06:52:30 -0700 Subject: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? In-Reply-To: <000301cda16f$3e7a59e0$bb6f0da0$@btinternet.com> References: <000901cd886e$84416230$8cc42690$@btinternet.com> <0CC6789C1C831B4C8CCFF49D45D7010F83858BE470@REDROOF2.alohasunset.com> <000301cda16f$3e7a59e0$bb6f0da0$@btinternet.com> Message-ID: <0CC6789C1C831B4C8CCFF49D45D7010F83F881D22F@REDROOF2.alohasunset.com> Hi Paul, Sorry I dropped the ball on this. I have verified that the simh v3.9-0 binaries you refer to indeed won't run on XP. I'm not sure why. They were built using the MinGW GCC compiler. They run fine on Windows 7, Vista and Windows 8. There have been 85 downloads of those binaries so they've probably been useful to some. I've built new simh v3.9-0 binaries with Visual Studio from the same source code. These run on XP. https://github.com/downloads/simh/simh/simh-v3.9-0-Win32Binaries-XP+.zip - Mark From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Paul Hardy 2 Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 6:59 AM To: Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm; simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? I've finally got round to trying the 3.9-0 VAX SIMH, and VAX.EXE crashes immediately (0C5 on address 0x077c3554a) on starting emulation (BOOT CPU), even if I don't use any INI file and just start an empty machine. This is on Windows XP. I have Winpcap 4.1.2, and reverting VAX.exe to the 3.7.3 version boots and runs OK. Has anyone else succeeded in running the VAX SIMH from the github link below? Regards, -- Paul Hardy web: www.paulhardy.net From: Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm [mailto:Mark at infocomm.com] Sent: 04 September 2012 04:37 To: Paul Hardy 2; simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: RE: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? Hi Paul, Simh V3.9-0 windows binaries which will work with or without network support (depending on whether WinPcap is installed) can be downloaded from: https://github.com/downloads/simh/simh/simhv39-0-Win32Binaries.zip - Mark From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Paul Hardy 2 Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 11:21 AM To: simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? I've been using 3.7.x for a while, and thought I should upgrade to 3.9, particularly in order to get network loopback from SIMH client (VAX) to host (Windows XP). I'm confused as to whether I can use the windows binaries on trailing-edge.com - in the past I think I had to explicitly acquire binaries with Ethernet support (I have WinPCap). It says: >> Download a zip file containing Windows executables for all the SIMH simulators. The VAX and PDP-11 are compiled without Ethernet support. So, where do I find binaries with Ethernet support for 3.9? Regards, -- Paul Hardy web: www.paulhardy.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mark at wickensonline.co.uk Sun Oct 28 06:41:56 2012 From: mark at wickensonline.co.uk (Mark Wickens) Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:41:56 +0000 Subject: [Simh] Fastest platform for SIMH/VAX Message-ID: <508D0BF4.8090706@wickensonline.co.uk> Hi folks, I was wondering if anyone had done any performance testing on SIMH? I'm specifically interested in the VAX platform. I'm presuming that a top of the range Core i7 is going to be pretty hard to beat? Is it best run on an SSD card for IO performance? Regards, Mark. -- http://www.wickensonline.co.uk http://declegacy.org.uk http://retrochallenge.net https://twitter.com/#!/%40urbancamo From Bruce.Claremont at MigrationSpecialties.com Sun Oct 28 10:02:10 2012 From: Bruce.Claremont at MigrationSpecialties.com (Bruce Claremont) Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 08:02:10 -0600 Subject: [Simh] Fastest platform for SIMH/VAX In-Reply-To: <508D0BF4.8090706@wickensonline.co.uk> References: <508D0BF4.8090706@wickensonline.co.uk> Message-ID: It is straight forward. The faster the host platform, the faster the emulator. A high quality SSD will help as well. The cheaper SSDs are not so good. Using an SSD as a host boot device provides the best overall improvement. At 04:41 AM 10/28/2012, Mark Wickens wrote: >Hi folks, > >I was wondering if anyone had done any performance testing on SIMH? I'm specifically interested in the VAX platform. 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URL: From gsavix at gmail.com Mon Oct 29 21:00:04 2012 From: gsavix at gmail.com (gilberto dos santos alves) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 23:00:04 -0200 Subject: [Simh] prolific usb/serial pl2303 for windows7 32bits Message-ID: since last year my old cable usb ca50 [Prolific Technology, Inc.], that works 24x7x365 since 2007 thru 2011, using an old nokia phone does not work on windows7 32bits ultimate. after lots of patches, sites, downloads, regedits, etc it do not works more. this year i use this on linux debian / ubuntu and every works well. question: how do i compile sources to it work agian in windows 7 again? following are results of linux command dmesg and lsusb -vv -d 067b:2303 --------------------------------------------------- dmesg [21594.132025] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 [21594.344904] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2303 [21594.344909] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [21594.344914] usb 2-2: Product: USB-Serial Controller [21594.344917] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc. [21594.345066] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [21595.280174] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial [21595.280198] USB Serial support registered for generic [21595.280233] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic [21595.280234] usbserial: USB Serial Driver core [21595.307046] USB Serial support registered for pl2303 [21595.307077] pl2303 2-2:1.0: pl2303 converter detected [21595.338975] usb 2-2: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 [21595.339005] usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303 [21595.339008] pl2303: Prolific PL2303 USB to serial adaptor driver --------------------------------------------------- lsusb Bus 002 Device 003: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 1.10 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x067b Prolific Technology, Inc. idProduct 0x2303 PL2303 Serial Port bcdDevice 3.00 iManufacturer 1 Prolific Technology Inc. iProduct 2 USB-Serial Controller iSerial 0 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 39 bNumInterfaces 1 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0x80 (Bus Powered) MaxPower 100mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 3 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 0 bInterfaceProtocol 0 iInterface 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 3 Transfer Type Interrupt Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x000a 1x 10 bytes bInterval 1 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x02 EP 2 OUT bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x83 EP 3 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes bInterval 0 Device Status: 0x0000 (Bus Powered) --------------------------------------------------- thanks for any help -- gilberto dos santos alves +55.11.98646-5049 s?o paulo - sp - brasil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From md.benson at gmail.com Wed Oct 31 14:48:40 2012 From: md.benson at gmail.com (Mark Benson) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:48:40 +0000 Subject: [Simh] Paging: Mark Pizzolato Message-ID: <4CD39E08-92F1-44F5-A56C-21C92E2808A3@gmail.com> Hi, Anyone got an alternate e-mail for him? His infocomm email address is offline it seems. -- Mark Benson http://DECtec.info Twitter: @DECtecInfo HECnet: STAR69::MARK Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts. From paulhardy2 at btinternet.com Wed Oct 3 09:59:02 2012 From: paulhardy2 at btinternet.com (Paul Hardy 2) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 14:59:02 +0100 Subject: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? In-Reply-To: <0CC6789C1C831B4C8CCFF49D45D7010F83858BE470@REDROOF2.alohasunset.com> References: <000901cd886e$84416230$8cc42690$@btinternet.com> <0CC6789C1C831B4C8CCFF49D45D7010F83858BE470@REDROOF2.alohasunset.com> Message-ID: <000301cda16f$3e7a59e0$bb6f0da0$@btinternet.com> I've finally got round to trying the 3.9-0 VAX SIMH, and VAX.EXE crashes immediately (0C5 on address 0x077c3554a) on starting emulation (BOOT CPU), even if I don't use any INI file and just start an empty machine. This is on Windows XP. I have Winpcap 4.1.2, and reverting VAX.exe to the 3.7.3 version boots and runs OK. Has anyone else succeeded in running the VAX SIMH from the github link below? Regards, -- Paul Hardy web: www.paulhardy.net From: Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm [mailto:Mark at infocomm.com] Sent: 04 September 2012 04:37 To: Paul Hardy 2; simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: RE: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? Hi Paul, Simh V3.9-0 windows binaries which will work with or without network support (depending on whether WinPcap is installed) can be downloaded from: https://github.com/downloads/simh/simh/simhv39-0-Win32Binaries.zip - Mark From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Paul Hardy 2 Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 11:21 AM To: simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? I've been using 3.7.x for a while, and thought I should upgrade to 3.9, particularly in order to get network loopback from SIMH client (VAX) to host (Windows XP). I'm confused as to whether I can use the windows binaries on trailing-edge.com - in the past I think I had to explicitly acquire binaries with Ethernet support (I have WinPCap). It says: >> Download a zip file containing Windows executables for all the SIMH simulators. The VAX and PDP-11 are compiled without Ethernet support. 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URL: From Mark at infocomm.com Sun Oct 7 13:30:02 2012 From: Mark at infocomm.com (Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm) Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 10:30:02 -0700 Subject: [Simh] Device Timing Question In-Reply-To: <028c01cda4ad$e039bc30$a0ad3490$@ntlworld.com> References: <028c01cda4ad$e039bc30$a0ad3490$@ntlworld.com> Message-ID: <0CC6789C1C831B4C8CCFF49D45D7010F838DE29104@REDROOF2.alohasunset.com> Hi Rob, Simh device wait units are instructions. Usually a device has no specific knowledge about the significance of wall time vs instructions. To help solve this problem some methods exist to specify wait times which correlate with the simulated machine's clock ticks which are dynamically calibrated to produce a number of instructions per unit of time (clock tick). Devices usually behave well if wait units are aligned on clock ticks and doing this helps produce better 'idling' behavior. A device which wants to wake up on every simulated clock tick would code the following: extern int32 tmxr_poll; /* calibrated delay */ sim_activate (uptr, clk_cosched (tmxr_poll)); /* reactivate */ Good Luck, - Mark From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Rob Jarratt Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 10:05 AM To: simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: [Simh] Device Timing Question The device I am emulating appears to be running too fast for the driver that uses it and I need to get to grips with device timing in SIMH. I have never fully understood the use of sim_activate, in particular what are the units of time that are passed to this routine? Thanks Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jdbryan at acm.org Sun Oct 7 18:05:58 2012 From: jdbryan at acm.org (J. David Bryan) Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 18:05:58 -0400 Subject: [Simh] Device Timing Question In-Reply-To: <028c01cda4ad$e039bc30$a0ad3490$@ntlworld.com> References: <028c01cda4ad$e039bc30$a0ad3490$@ntlworld.com> Message-ID: Rob, On Sunday, October 7, 2012 at 18:04, Rob Jarratt wrote: > The device I am emulating appears to be running too fast for the > driver that uses it.... I've run into that problem several times before with the HP simulator. OS software assumes that a device interrupt cannot occur before a certain amount of time has elapsed after initiation, and dire consequences accrue when it does. As Mark noted, most devices are timed by instruction counts. For example, a TTY output device may output a character every 100 instructions. That provides for snappy screen output, but it is far faster than a real TTY operated on a real CPU (more on the order of a character every 100K instructions). With the shorter time, interrupts occur far more frequently than they did with real hardware, and unless the driver and OS software can accommodate the higher rate, there may well be problems. A simple fix is to work out how many instructions on the simulated CPU would elapse for a given device response time. In the TTY case, interrupts would occur every 100 milliseconds (based on 10 cps). An HP 1000 E-Series (for example) executed about 1580 instructions per millisecond, so setting the character output time to 158,000 instructions ensures that the driver and OS would see interrupts at about the same rate as the actual device would produce. A more involved fix is to trace the code path through the OS and driver to determine how long interrupt servicing takes (in machine instructions) and then use that value as a lower bound on the character output time. Timing I/O devices by instruction counts ensures that the target OS interrupt rate remains predictable regardless of the speed of the host system. However, some devices (e.g., a TOD clock) must interrupt at a rate related to wall-clock time. These are calibrated as Mark described. In addition to clocks, devices that poll for input, such as terminals, also use calibrated timers to ensure that the poll rate remains constant across a variety of host system speeds. > I have never fully understood the use of sim_activate, in particular > what are the units of time that are passed to this routine? "sim_activate" sets the time in the future (measured in target machine instructions) when a device's unit service routine will be called. For example, a TTY output routine might transmit a character and then call "sim_activate" to request that it be called again after 100,000 instructions have elapsed. When it is reentered, the next character is transmitted, and the process repeats until the entire buffer is sent. The main difference between SIMH I/O and real hardware is that there are no asynchronous operations. SIMH is event driven, and "sim_activate" establishes a list of events to process at varying times in the future. An I/O operation, such as a terminal write or a disc seek, is broken down into a series of sequential operations with differing elapsed times that are handled by a unit's service routine. As each is finished, the next is scheduled with "sim_activate" until the entire operation is complete. -- Dave From johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com Tue Oct 9 04:10:45 2012 From: johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com (John H. Reinhardt) Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 04:10:45 -0400 Subject: [Simh] pdp11.org.ru Message-ID: <5073DC05.4010202@yahoo.com> Does anyone know how to get in contact with the owner/manager of the website pdp11.org.ru? I was downloading some files from it about three weeks ago. From bqt at softjar.se Tue Oct 9 05:30:10 2012 From: bqt at softjar.se (Johnny Billquist) Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:30:10 +0200 Subject: [Simh] pdp11.org.ru In-Reply-To: <5073DC05.4010202@yahoo.com> References: <5073DC05.4010202@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <5073EEA2.5050700@softjar.se> On 2012-10-09 10:10, John H. Reinhardt wrote: > Does anyone know how to get in contact with the owner/manager of the > website pdp11.org.ru? > > I was downloading some files from it about three weeks ago. I believe that would be Oleg Safiullin. Contact me if you can't find an address for him. I think I should have one somewhere. Johnny From johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com Tue Oct 9 07:36:23 2012 From: johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com (John H. Reinhardt) Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 07:36:23 -0400 Subject: [Simh] pdp11.org.ru In-Reply-To: <5073EEA2.5050700@softjar.se> References: <5073DC05.4010202@yahoo.com> <5073EEA2.5050700@softjar.se> Message-ID: <50740C37.2020908@yahoo.com> On 10/9/12 5:30 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > On 2012-10-09 10:10, John H. Reinhardt wrote: >> Does anyone know how to get in contact with the owner/manager of the >> website pdp11.org.ru? >> >> I was downloading some files from it about three weeks ago. > > I believe that would be Oleg Safiullin. Contact me if you can't find > an address for him. I think I should have one somewhere. > > Johnny > Thanks. That was an oops. I had been having problems getting to the web site and had started composing an email when I was able to reach it again. I meant to hit delete and hit send instead. John H. Reinhardt From oboguev at yahoo.com Tue Oct 9 20:46:22 2012 From: oboguev at yahoo.com (Sergey Oboguev) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 17:46:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Simh] pdp11.org.ru In-Reply-To: <5073EEA2.5050700@softjar.se> References: <5073DC05.4010202@yahoo.com> <5073EEA2.5050700@softjar.se> Message-ID: <1349829982.82721.YahooMailRC@web184303.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> http://pdp11.org.ru/support.html ________________________________ From: Johnny Billquist To: simh at trailing-edge.com Sent: Tue, October 9, 2012 2:32:00 AM Subject: Re: [Simh] pdp11.org.ru On 2012-10-09 10:10, John H. Reinhardt wrote: > Does anyone know how to get in contact with the owner/manager of the > website pdp11.org.ru? > > I was downloading some files from it about three weeks ago. I believe that would be Oleg Safiullin. Contact me if you can't find an address for him. I think I should have one somewhere. 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Regards, -- Paul Hardy web: www.paulhardy.net From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Paul Hardy 2 Sent: 03 October 2012 14:59 To: 'Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm'; simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? I've finally got round to trying the 3.9-0 VAX SIMH, and VAX.EXE crashes immediately (0C5 on address 0x077c3554a) on starting emulation (BOOT CPU), even if I don't use any INI file and just start an empty machine. This is on Windows XP. I have Winpcap 4.1.2, and reverting VAX.exe to the 3.7.3 version boots and runs OK. Has anyone else succeeded in running the VAX SIMH from the github link below? Regards, -- Paul Hardy web: www.paulhardy.net From: Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm [mailto:Mark at infocomm.com] Sent: 04 September 2012 04:37 To: Paul Hardy 2; simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: RE: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? Hi Paul, Simh V3.9-0 windows binaries which will work with or without network support (depending on whether WinPcap is installed) can be downloaded from: https://github.com/downloads/simh/simh/simhv39-0-Win32Binaries.zip - Mark From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Paul Hardy 2 Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 11:21 AM To: simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? I've been using 3.7.x for a while, and thought I should upgrade to 3.9, particularly in order to get network loopback from SIMH client (VAX) to host (Windows XP). I'm confused as to whether I can use the windows binaries on trailing-edge.com - in the past I think I had to explicitly acquire binaries with Ethernet support (I have WinPCap). It says: >> Download a zip file containing Windows executables for all the SIMH simulators. The VAX and PDP-11 are compiled without Ethernet support. So, where do I find binaries with Ethernet support for 3.9? Regards, -- Paul Hardy web: www.paulhardy.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From toby at telegraphics.com.au Thu Oct 18 21:05:37 2012 From: toby at telegraphics.com.au (Toby Thain) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:05:37 -0400 Subject: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? In-Reply-To: <000001cdad5d$ad23c9e0$076b5da0$@btinternet.com> References: <000901cd886e$84416230$8cc42690$@btinternet.com> <0CC6789C1C831B4C8CCFF49D45D7010F83858BE470@REDROOF2.alohasunset.com> <000301cda16f$3e7a59e0$bb6f0da0$@btinternet.com> <000001cdad5d$ad23c9e0$076b5da0$@btinternet.com> Message-ID: <5080A761.6050804@telegraphics.com.au> On 18/10/12 2:23 PM, Paul Hardy 2 wrote: > Nobody has said that they have successfully used the 3.9 SimH VAX > Windows binaries on github, and one other person has said that they > tried and failed. Can Mark P or whoever is the current maintainer try > rebuilding them please? > > Regards, > > -- I've built them (for PDP-11 and VAX) successfully, and here is a howto if anyone wants one (though the bundled instructions are good enough). https://gist.github.com/3885865 --Toby From paulhardy2 at btinternet.com Fri Oct 19 06:49:05 2012 From: paulhardy2 at btinternet.com (Paul Hardy 2) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:49:05 +0100 Subject: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? In-Reply-To: <5080A761.6050804@telegraphics.com.au> References: <000901cd886e$84416230$8cc42690$@btinternet.com> <0CC6789C1C831B4C8CCFF49D45D7010F83858BE470@REDROOF2.alohasunset.com> <000301cda16f$3e7a59e0$bb6f0da0$@btinternet.com> <000001cdad5d$ad23c9e0$076b5da0$@btinternet.com> <5080A761.6050804@telegraphics.com.au> Message-ID: <001801cdade7$5c0710f0$141532d0$@btinternet.com> I've received a copy of the 11 & VAX binaries from Toby via Christian, and the VAX one works fine. This reinforces that the 3.9 binaries on github are broken. However, I'm OK now :) Regards, -- Paul Hardy web: www.paulhardy.net -----Original Message----- From: Toby Thain [mailto:toby at telegraphics.com.au] Sent: 19 October 2012 02:06 To: paulhardy2 at btinternet.com Cc: Mark at infocomm.com; simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? On 18/10/12 2:23 PM, Paul Hardy 2 wrote: > Nobody has said that they have successfully used the 3.9 SimH VAX > Windows binaries on github, and one other person has said that they > tried and failed. Can Mark P or whoever is the current maintainer try > rebuilding them please? > > Regards, > > -- I've built them (for PDP-11 and VAX) successfully, and here is a howto if anyone wants one (though the bundled instructions are good enough). https://gist.github.com/3885865 --Toby From Mark at infocomm.com Fri Oct 19 09:52:30 2012 From: Mark at infocomm.com (Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 06:52:30 -0700 Subject: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? In-Reply-To: <000301cda16f$3e7a59e0$bb6f0da0$@btinternet.com> References: <000901cd886e$84416230$8cc42690$@btinternet.com> <0CC6789C1C831B4C8CCFF49D45D7010F83858BE470@REDROOF2.alohasunset.com> <000301cda16f$3e7a59e0$bb6f0da0$@btinternet.com> Message-ID: <0CC6789C1C831B4C8CCFF49D45D7010F83F881D22F@REDROOF2.alohasunset.com> Hi Paul, Sorry I dropped the ball on this. I have verified that the simh v3.9-0 binaries you refer to indeed won't run on XP. I'm not sure why. They were built using the MinGW GCC compiler. They run fine on Windows 7, Vista and Windows 8. There have been 85 downloads of those binaries so they've probably been useful to some. I've built new simh v3.9-0 binaries with Visual Studio from the same source code. These run on XP. https://github.com/downloads/simh/simh/simh-v3.9-0-Win32Binaries-XP+.zip - Mark From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Paul Hardy 2 Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 6:59 AM To: Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm; simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? I've finally got round to trying the 3.9-0 VAX SIMH, and VAX.EXE crashes immediately (0C5 on address 0x077c3554a) on starting emulation (BOOT CPU), even if I don't use any INI file and just start an empty machine. This is on Windows XP. I have Winpcap 4.1.2, and reverting VAX.exe to the 3.7.3 version boots and runs OK. Has anyone else succeeded in running the VAX SIMH from the github link below? Regards, -- Paul Hardy web: www.paulhardy.net From: Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm [mailto:Mark at infocomm.com] Sent: 04 September 2012 04:37 To: Paul Hardy 2; simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: RE: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? Hi Paul, Simh V3.9-0 windows binaries which will work with or without network support (depending on whether WinPcap is installed) can be downloaded from: https://github.com/downloads/simh/simh/simhv39-0-Win32Binaries.zip - Mark From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Paul Hardy 2 Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 11:21 AM To: simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: [Simh] Ethernet Windows binaries for 3.9? I've been using 3.7.x for a while, and thought I should upgrade to 3.9, particularly in order to get network loopback from SIMH client (VAX) to host (Windows XP). I'm confused as to whether I can use the windows binaries on trailing-edge.com - in the past I think I had to explicitly acquire binaries with Ethernet support (I have WinPCap). It says: >> Download a zip file containing Windows executables for all the SIMH simulators. The VAX and PDP-11 are compiled without Ethernet support. So, where do I find binaries with Ethernet support for 3.9? Regards, -- Paul Hardy web: www.paulhardy.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mark at wickensonline.co.uk Sun Oct 28 06:41:56 2012 From: mark at wickensonline.co.uk (Mark Wickens) Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:41:56 +0000 Subject: [Simh] Fastest platform for SIMH/VAX Message-ID: <508D0BF4.8090706@wickensonline.co.uk> Hi folks, I was wondering if anyone had done any performance testing on SIMH? I'm specifically interested in the VAX platform. I'm presuming that a top of the range Core i7 is going to be pretty hard to beat? Is it best run on an SSD card for IO performance? Regards, Mark. -- http://www.wickensonline.co.uk http://declegacy.org.uk http://retrochallenge.net https://twitter.com/#!/%40urbancamo From Bruce.Claremont at MigrationSpecialties.com Sun Oct 28 10:02:10 2012 From: Bruce.Claremont at MigrationSpecialties.com (Bruce Claremont) Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 08:02:10 -0600 Subject: [Simh] Fastest platform for SIMH/VAX In-Reply-To: <508D0BF4.8090706@wickensonline.co.uk> References: <508D0BF4.8090706@wickensonline.co.uk> Message-ID: It is straight forward. The faster the host platform, the faster the emulator. A high quality SSD will help as well. The cheaper SSDs are not so good. Using an SSD as a host boot device provides the best overall improvement. At 04:41 AM 10/28/2012, Mark Wickens wrote: >Hi folks, > >I was wondering if anyone had done any performance testing on SIMH? I'm specifically interested in the VAX platform. I'm presuming that a top of the range Core i7 is going to be pretty hard to beat? Is it best run on an SSD card for IO performance? > >Regards, Mark. > >-- >http://www.wickensonline.co.uk >http://declegacy.org.uk >http://retrochallenge.net >https://twitter.com/#!/%40urbancamo > >_______________________________________________ >Simh mailing list >Simh at trailing-edge.com >http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh Mr. Bruce Claremont, Software Preservationist Migration Specialties International, Inc. 217 West 2nd Street, Florence, CO 81226-1403 Bruce.Claremont at MigrationSpecialties.com www.MigrationSpecialties.com +1 719-784-9196, Fax: +1 888-854-3417 Get your free Virtual Alpha at FreeAXP.com. Continuity in Computing: Founded in 1992, Migration Specialties offers modern solutions for legacy hardware & software. Look to us for virtual VAX and Alpha solutions along with OpenVMS and Tru64 Unix support. 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URL: From gsavix at gmail.com Mon Oct 29 21:00:04 2012 From: gsavix at gmail.com (gilberto dos santos alves) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 23:00:04 -0200 Subject: [Simh] prolific usb/serial pl2303 for windows7 32bits Message-ID: since last year my old cable usb ca50 [Prolific Technology, Inc.], that works 24x7x365 since 2007 thru 2011, using an old nokia phone does not work on windows7 32bits ultimate. after lots of patches, sites, downloads, regedits, etc it do not works more. this year i use this on linux debian / ubuntu and every works well. question: how do i compile sources to it work agian in windows 7 again? following are results of linux command dmesg and lsusb -vv -d 067b:2303 --------------------------------------------------- dmesg [21594.132025] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 [21594.344904] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2303 [21594.344909] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [21594.344914] usb 2-2: Product: USB-Serial Controller [21594.344917] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc. [21594.345066] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [21595.280174] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial [21595.280198] USB Serial support registered for generic [21595.280233] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic [21595.280234] usbserial: USB Serial Driver core [21595.307046] USB Serial support registered for pl2303 [21595.307077] pl2303 2-2:1.0: pl2303 converter detected [21595.338975] usb 2-2: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 [21595.339005] usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303 [21595.339008] pl2303: Prolific PL2303 USB to serial adaptor driver --------------------------------------------------- lsusb Bus 002 Device 003: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 1.10 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x067b Prolific Technology, Inc. idProduct 0x2303 PL2303 Serial Port bcdDevice 3.00 iManufacturer 1 Prolific Technology Inc. iProduct 2 USB-Serial Controller iSerial 0 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 39 bNumInterfaces 1 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0x80 (Bus Powered) MaxPower 100mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 3 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 0 bInterfaceProtocol 0 iInterface 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 3 Transfer Type Interrupt Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x000a 1x 10 bytes bInterval 1 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x02 EP 2 OUT bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x83 EP 3 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes bInterval 0 Device Status: 0x0000 (Bus Powered) --------------------------------------------------- thanks for any help -- gilberto dos santos alves +55.11.98646-5049 são paulo - sp - brasil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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