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

[Ethan Dicks]

On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent at gmail.com> wrote:
> 4.2BSD kernel conf has settings for the 780, 750, and 730, and the generic
> kernel ought to boot on any of those.  4.1C BSD has the same kernel conf
> settings as 4.2 (no surprise there).  Vanilla 4.1 looks like it will only
> support the 780, so anything earlier will definitely only run on a 780.

We ran 4.0BSD and 4.1BSD on our 11/750 in 1985.  I do not know what
gyrations were required as I didn't install it, I only used it.

> The Ultrix 1.0 manuals specifically mention the 780, 750, and 730, which is
> no surprise because it's basically 4.2BSD with some add-ons.

I _did_ install Ultrix on our 11/730, my first-ever UNIX install.  It
took a long while, but it ran with no fiddling.

-ethan