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

[Johnny Billquist]

Uh... The bootstrap listed there is for the 11/780. It does not work for 
any other model (the 11/785 is just a faster 11/780).

The MtXinu manuals (do anyone have them around) had the bootstraps for 
tape on all the old VAXen (11/780, 11/750, 11/730 and 8600).

	Johnny

On 2016-10-09 16:40, Ray Jewhurst 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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