[Simh] What happened to IDLE?

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
I confess I didn't know that. And given what happens next regarding
the PDP11 one, I shall certainly do all of that, if something does not
work. For option 2 I didn't bother to save the output shown when
making it, so I'll do that again, and save it to a text file.

For SHOW VERSION, shouldn't it be the same as what's shown in my selection?
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Mark Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 8:23 AM, Gregg Levine wrote:
>> Hello!
>> I grabbed the sources from GIT earlier today. And promptly built the two I'll
>> need. PDP11 for one, and the VAX ones for the other on a Raspberry Pi3. I even
>> added the options for networking that the README wanted.
>>
>> So running PDP11 I then saw this happen, and the VAX as well:
>> pi at raspberrypi:~ $ /home/pi/emul/simh/BIN/pdp11
>>
>> PDP-11 simulator V4.0-0 Current        git commit id: 49cfac90
>> sim> show cpu
>> CPU     11/73, NOCIS, autoconfiguration enabled, idle disabled
>>         256KB
>> sim> exit
>> Goodbye
>> pi at raspberrypi:~ $ /home/pi/emul/simh/BIN/vax
>>
>> MicroVAX 3900 simulator V4.0-0 Current        git commit id: 49cfac90
>> sim> show cpu
>> CPU     idle disabled, model=VAXServer 3900 (KA655), NOAUTOBOOT
>>         16MB, HALT to SIMH
>> sim> exit
>> Goodbye
>> pi at raspberrypi:~ $
>>
>> It shows idle disabled. Okay how do I enable it on both? I haven't decided on a
>> target for them but given that networking on SIMH works best connected to a
>> fixed source....... Anyway I remembered that any commentary here would
>> need to show those first two lines.
>
> You do know that idling starts disabled, right.  You have to explicitly enable it
> with a SET CPU IDLE command.  There are certain conditions when the
> SET CPU IDLE won't work.
>
> Presuming SET CPU IDLE doesn't work, I could give a better answer if you
> provided:
> 1) the output of SHOW VERSION at the sim> prompt
> 2) the output produced by make when you built one of these simulators.
> and optionally:
> 3) The configuration file(s) you're using.
>
> - Mark