[Simh] Ultrix 4.0 and DEQNA-LOCK

[Cory Smelosky]

4.5 exhibits the same "now it's suddenly in DEQNA" mode behaviour.

(it also panic()s every first boot after first starting the emulator)

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016, at 08:04, Clem Cole wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>> Not sure there are any bugs here. Ultrix might just change it to run in DEQNA mode. Maybe because it didnät have a driver for running it in DELQA mode in 4.0? Just guessing here, but it don't look to me as if there actually is a bug anywhere.
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> I've long since forgotten the details.    The 4.5 SPD says it should work (modulo firmware - which I suspect simh is assuming that).   Johnny is probably right.  
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> Cory: Is there a reason you are running 4.0 not not something later than 4.4.   There a ton of bugs fixed in the 4.3/4.4 development.  The Vax has sort of been forgotten by the Ultrix/Tru64 teams in favor of the PMAX and the Alpha;  thus entropy had set in on the Vax code.   Even though 4.3 was not an officially bug release, it had more bug fixes in that any previous one, because a number of just got sick of dealing with it and there was a 3-4 week development hiatus where we just cleaned up things.  IIRC this was particularly true for the networking stack, because we were heaving pathworks development then and the Pathworks stack kept turning up small boundary conditions in the Unix side.
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> Anyway -- if you are going to run Ultrix, I highly recommend 4.5 - which was really the most stable of the all the Ultrix releases.  For instance, the SCSI stack is (finally) common with Tru64, as we back ported Fred's Alpha stack to the Vax and PMAX.   As a result it will cover a lot more devices.   I seem to remember we did some similar things in the Network code too, but again I've forgotten (I was worrying about TruClusters at that time but would occasionally consult to the Ultrix folks).   
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