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

[Johnny Billquist]

Ray, not a problem.

And to make it clear, yes they are instructions. However, the 
instructions as such are the same on the different models, and that is 
not the reason for the problem.

However, the controllers and bus adapters themselves are different on 
the different models, and thus require different programming to setup 
for operation. And that is true, even if the end device itself is the 
same on the different machines.

	Johnny

On 2016-10-10 01:46, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
> Thank you Johnny. I will look for those documents. To be honest I knew
> that the lines of hex were instructions of course but I honestly didn't
> know what they were for. I only have tape experience on a then new HP/UX
> server and that was over 20 years ago. I would like to thank all of for
> your advice and I am definitely putting getting this to work on my short
> list.
> Thank you
> Ray
>
>
> On Oct 9, 2016 7:35 PM, "Johnny Billquist" <bqt at softjar.se
> <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
>
>     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>
>         <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>
>         <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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                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
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