[Simh] going back to the VAX console with CTRL P

Jonathan Welch jhwelch at gmail.com
Tue Aug 6 13:41:24 EDT 2019


It would make sense to add some conditional code so when a VAX emulator is
compiled Ctrl-P is set as the console interrupt character. Ctrl-E is used
when line editing.

On Tue, Aug 6, 2019, 1:36 PM Mark Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 10:19 AM, gérard Calliet wrote:
> > With a hardware VAX, we can get back to the console from the OPA terminal
> > using a CTRL P key. Usefull to do some deposit, for example to initiate
> xDELTA.
> >
> > Is it something like that possible with simh? I tried it and no result.
> > Do I miss something?
>
>
> If you insist on using CTRL P, you can have:
>
> DEPOSIT WRU 10
>
> Somewhere early in your configuration file.
>
> Or you could merely use the simh default WRU character of CTRL E.
>
> At the sim> prompt you can deposit into various registers and then
> CONTINUE...
>
>
>
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