[Simh] Install VAX/VMS 4.4 on a simulated VAX-11/780

[Mike Stramba]

Here's my ini file :

attach rq0 vms46sys.dsk
attach rq1  vms040stb.rx3

attach ts bb-bt05c-be_vms_v4_4_c1986.tap
attach cs vms044mup.rx1

set ma0 enable
set ma0 2m
attach ma0 vaxmem0

set ma1 enable
set ma1 2m
attach ma1 vaxmem1

set cpu idle
b rq0 /R5:800

On 3/23/18, Mike Stramba <mikestramba at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have VMS4 on Win7 running from this page :
>
> http://www.9track.net/simh/vax782/
>
> I'm using the win32  executable Vax782 from that page.
>
> I haven't tried compiling the 782 on a Linux box yet.
>
> Mike
>
> On 3/23/18, Tim Shoppa <tshoppa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm sure those three standalone backup tapes are TU58 images which aren't
>> really "tapes" in the usual SIMH sense of the word. TU58 images are a
>> little more like "disks" in the emulator world.
>>
>> You do not attach them to "TS". I think you attach them to "TD0" in a
>> simulated 11/750 or maybe just maybe a 11/730. I do not know if they
>> would
>> work on a 11/780 or if 11/780 ever supported booting from TU58.
>>
>> I don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with using a different
>> version of standalone backup (later than VMS 4.4) to do the restore.
>>
>> If you wanted to be super historically correct on a 11/780 in the
>> mid-80's
>> you would could be using the RX01 standalone backup floppies.
>>
>> Tim N3QE
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Henk van de Kamer <simh at vandekamer.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm new to this list, so forgive me if I do things wrong...
>>>
>>> For an article about the history of prompts I want to make screendumps
>>> of
>>> all systems I worked on. In 1986 (may be 1987) I learned Pascal on the
>>> VAX-11/785 (I think) on the university.
>>>
>>> So two days ago I started a journey to install VAX/VMS 4.4 -- because
>>> that
>>> is the most probable version used -- on a VAX-11/780 using the Simh
>>> emulator under Debian Stretch. That was the first problem because the
>>> man
>>> page of the vax780 command said that ka655.bin was not included. I found
>>> the ka655x.bin in the Simh git. Later I discovered that the man page is
>>> probably wrong and I must use vmb.exe instead.
>>>
>>> After searching I found the bb-bt05c-be tape [1] which contains DEC
>>> VAX/VMS V4.4 BIN 16MT9 (C)1986 [2]. After a lot of trial, problems and
>>> searching I finally discovered that I need the Standalone Backup and a
>>> procedure for v3.0 [3]. Another searched and I got three tapes [4]:
>>>
>>>     BE-CT97A-BE - VAX/VMS V4.0 STANDALONE BACKUP 1 OF 3
>>>     BE-CT98A-BE - VAX/VMS V4.0 STANDALONE BACKUP 2 OF 3
>>>     BE-CT99A-BE - VAX/VMS V4.0 STANDALONE BACKUP 3 OF 3
>>>
>>> I adapted the given ini to the following -- the complete ini with the
>>> same
>>> adaptions don't give any difference:
>>>
>>> load vmb.exe
>>> set rp0 rp06
>>> set rp1 rp06
>>> attach rp0 stb40.rp6
>>> set console log=logs/vms44.log
>>>
>>> Then the procedure:
>>>
>>> hvdkamer at obelix:~/vax$ vax780 vax780.ini
>>>
>>> VAX780 simulator V3.8-1
>>> Overwrite last track? [N]
>>> Logging to file "logs/vms44.log"
>>> sim> boot rp1
>>> Loading boot code from vmb.exe
>>>
>>> [ctrl-E]
>>> Simulation stopped, PC: 00000E8D (BITL #1000,4(R7))
>>> sim> attach ts bb-bt05c-be.tap
>>> sim> cont
>>> [Enter]
>>>
>>>
>>> And there it hangs. I downloaded the v3.0 tape used in the example, but
>>> that results in the same.
>>>
>>> The above looks the most promising of all examples I tried. Most used
>>> options which didn't work or crashed the emulator. Can someone point me
>>> in
>>> the right direction to install the operating system. Thanks for any
>>> help.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/cm/dec/vax/sw/magtapes/
>>> [2] ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/cm/dec/vax/sw/
>>> magtapes/labels.txt
>>> [3] http://simh.trailing-edge.narkive.com/P8L1m0CF/problem-booti
>>> ng-vms-1-5#post7
>>> [4] http://iamvirtual.ca/VAX11/VAX-11-software.html
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Henk van de Kamer
>>> http://www.vandekamer.com/
>>> http://www.hetlab.tk/
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Simh mailing list
>>> Simh at trailing-edge.com
>>> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
>>
>