[Simh] VMS 1.5 installable?

[Henry Bent]

On 17 October 2017 at 20:24, Ray Jewhurst <raywjewhurst at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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I'm not a VMS person but I think this might get you far enough to do what
you want: http://iamvirtual.ca/VAX11/VAX-11-software.html

-Henry
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