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

Jason Stevens jsteve at superglobalmegacorp.com
Sun Oct 9 13:29:08 EDT 2016


It's been ages since I've updated the gunkies stuff.

I can ask Tore to get you an account if you want to contribute.. 

I've been meaning to try the other VAX models, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

On 09 October 2016 10:40:14 PM GMT+08:00, Ray Jewhurst <raywjewhurst at gmail.com> wrote:
>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 <http://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 <http://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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