[Simh] error

[Mark Pizzolato]

You may recall that older computers didn't have a way to programmatically power themselves down.

VMS is one of those systems.

When you shutdown a VMS system it closes all files and cleans up everything going on in the operating system then it displays a message which says something like "SYSTEM SHUTDOWN COMPLETE - USE THE CONSOLE TO HALT THE SYSTEM" and then it goes into an infinite loop with interrupts disabled.  The simulator detects this condition which will never produce useful results from the simulated system again without operator intervention and allows you to do that.

Would you want it to behave differently?

From: Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Bill Cunningham
Sent: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 1:46 PM
To: simh at trailing-edge.com
Subject: [Simh] error

    After using shutdown on my virtual VMS, it dropped to the simh prompt and had this error.

Infinite loop, PC833DC8D3 (BRB ...)
and the same hex number were the ... is. What does that mean?

Bill

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