[Simh] Older Model VAX simulators, what can you do with them and how do they work?

[Ray Jewhurst]

Hello everyone,

I have use the VAX 11/780-5 simulator for quite some time now and feel
pretty comfortable with them so I thought I would play around with the
other pre-MicroVAX simulators and have had no luck with them.  I tried
using the "recipes: from gunkies.org to set up some configurations and
nothing works.  (I know the 11/730 has some hardware differences, so that
one is the least of my concerns.)  Attempting to install 3BSD onto the
11/750 gives me a "0000010 HALT" and with the 8600 I can get all the way to
the initial boot and I get a kernel panic.  Now I will admit I haven't
tried different deposits and frankly I don't understand very well how they
work but I would really like to "try" these machines. Also on a similar
note I think that we should either help to revive gunkies.org or find a new
place to share our system "recipes" and configurations.  For example, in
the text file that comes with DOS-11 there  are instructions that don't
apply to that version of DOS and I would love to share a revised version of
said instructions.

Thanks,
Ray
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