[Simh] VMS 1.5 installable?

[Ray Jewhurst]

I get the gist of what has to be done, problem is, now I can't find a copy
of VMS 3.6 or any version of 3 for that matter online.  Wilm, you wouldn't
happen to have a vanilla disk image with 1.5 already on it that I could
play with, would you?  Or even better an image of v3.6 so I have the
learning experience.  Sorry to be such a bother.

Thanks

Ray

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Wilm Boerhout <wboerhout at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> John Forecast schreef op 17-10-2017 om 22:27:
>
> [Snip]
>
> I don’t think you’ll be able to get early versions of VMS running on SIMH.
> A lot (almost all?) of the utilities run in PDP-11 compatibility mode
> which, as far as I can see, is not supported by the 11/780 emulator.
>
> [Snip]
>
> I beg to differ. I have been running V1.5 on a simh VAX 11/780 ever since
> the 780 appeared on simh.
>
> As the OP said, you need DSC2 to restore the V1.5 distro .tap file to a
> Files-11 disk. DSC2 may be found on the original V3.0 distro for VMS, that
> is a regular backup save set. So it is a staged process:
>
>  * boot any VMS system with VMS backup to restore the V3.0 tape to a
>    disk and boot from this
>  * use DSC2 (in RSX-11 compatibility mode) on the V3.0 system to
>    restore the VMS 1.5 tape to a Files-11 disk.
>  * boot V1.5 !!!
>
> See also my blog on https://vxcompany.com/2016/02/
> 13/a-working-vax-11780-revisited/
>
>
> /Wilm
>
> Below is my config file for a simh configuration that will boot V1.5, V3.6
> and V7.3
>
> Use the now commented TU devices for loading the various tapes. And
> remember, the joy is in the journey!
>
>
>
> ; VAX-11/780 emulator settings
> set cpu 32M, conhalt, idle=VMS
> set uba autoconfig
>
> echo    ----------------------------
> echo           VAX-11/780 32MB
> echo            Big Brother
> echo    ----------------------------
> echo
>
> ; unused devices:
> set rl disable
> set hk disable
> set ts disable
> set lpt disable
> set rp disable
> set ry disable
>
> set xu enable
>
> ; DZ11 listen on port 10000 for dz0-7
> set dz lines=8
> attach dz 10000
>
> ; DUA disk ctrl
> set rq0 autosize
> set rq1 autosize
> set rq2 autosize
> set rq3 autosize
>
> att -e rq0 /vdisk/VMSV73clus.vdisk
> att -e rq1 /vdisk/VXTOOLS.vdisk
> att -e rq2 /vdisk/Hobbyist.vdisk
> att -e rq3 /vdisk/SABKUP.vdisk
>
> ; DUB disk ctrl
> set rqb enable
> set rqb0 disable
> set rqb1 autosize
> set rqb2 disable
> set rqb3 autosize
>
> att rqb1 /vdisk/VMSV15.vdisk
> att rqb3 /vdisk/VMSV30.vdisk
>
> ; MUA tape ctrl
> set tq TU81
> set tq0 capacity=0
> set tq1 disable
> set tq2 disable
> set tq3 disable
>
> att tq0 /mnt/nas/pi/PIVAX3.vtape
>
> ; MBA tape ctrl
> set tu disable
> ;set tu  TE16
> ;set tu0 disable
> ;set tu1 locked capacity=16
> ;set tu2 disable
> ;set tu3 locked capacity=16
> ;set tu4 disable
> ;set tu5 disable
> ;set tu6 disable
> ;set tu7 disable
>
> ;att -e tu1 /vtape/VMS1.5-BB-D782B-BE.tap
> ;att -e tu3 /vtape/VMS3.0-BB-D782E-BE.tap
>
> ; card rdr for file xfer
> set cr enable
> set cr autoeof
> att -a cr /mnt/nas/xfer.txt
> set cr translation=029
>
> ; Ethernet
> set xu mac=08:00:2B:19:02:54 type=DELUA
> att xu tap:tap0
>
> att todr /opt/simh-master/BIN/toy.clk
>
> ; Boot
> ;echo -----------------------------------------------
> ;echo type b[oot] rq0 to start the VAX-11/780
> ;echo -----------------------------------------------
> ;echo
>
> boot rq0
>
>
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