[Simh] Ultrix 1.0

[Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm]

On Friday, June 27, 2014 at 1:24 AM, dott.Piergiorgio d' Errico wrote:
> Il 27/06/2014 03:09, Henry Bent ha scritto:
> > I had success booting the Unix Archive's floppy distribution of Ultrix 
> > 1.0 on the MicroVAX 1 simulator.  It appears that the distribution 
> > there was only meant for a dual-RX50 MicroVAX 1 with an RD drive, and 
> > will not boot on any other machine.  RQ0 needs to be an RD51 or RD52, 
> > and RQ1 and RQ2 need to be RX50s.  TTI and TTO need to be 7 bit.  To 
> > boot the installer, put 32m-1.0-bin/01 on RQ1 and 32m-1.0-bin/02 on 
> > RQ2.  The install goes cleanly, albeit with quite a bit of disk 
> > swapping - the installation disk set is 13 floppies.
> >
> > The QVSS is supported and will display some output on boot.  I haven't 
> > yet looked into what is needed to use it as the console (if that's possible?).
> >
> > The kernel seems to support what I assume is the DEQNA - it has 
> > references to a qe device - but I can't figure out how to get it recognized.
> > Unfortunately there are no kernel config files in the distribution, so 
> > I have no idea if the stock kernel is expecting the controller at a 
> > non-standard address.  Any help with this would be greatly 
> > appreciated,
>
> After some misgivings, it actually works here !
>
> (my build is: MicroVAX I (KA610) simulator V4.0-0 Beta        git commit id: 796cbd27)

Can you elaborate on the 'misgivings' or can you describe what 'works'?

Git commit id is from back in November 2013.  Can you confirm that what you believe worked with that version also works with the latest codebase at https://github.com/simh/simh/archive/master.zip

Thanks.

- Mark