[Simh] simh and RSTS/E - problems with getting additional terminal interfaces to work

[Johnny Billquist]

In RSTS/E, you have DZ11 lines, but they are configured for a CSR of 
160100 and 160110, and vectors are 400 and 410. I bet that does not 
match what simh thinks...

   Johnny

On 2019-12-09 11:25, Trevor Warwick wrote:
> 
> I'm using "PDP-11 simulator V4.0-0 Current", and getting the same 
> results on Win10 and Linux.
> 
> I'm booting the full RSTS V7.0-07 disk, built by by Chuck Cranor. This 
> boots fine, and I can log in on the simulated console. However, I can't 
> persuade it to recognise any additional terminals. If I use:
> 
> set dli enable
> set dli lines=8
> attach dli 10001
> 
> Then I get a telnet server appearing on port 10001, which prints 
> "Connected to the PDP-11 simulator DLI device, line 0" when I boot the 
> RSTS system disk. However, there's no response to any input once RSTS is 
> up and running.  I've also tried using a DZ11
> 
> set dz lines=8
> attach dz 10002
> 
> and in that case I don't even get the "Connected...." line from simh. 
> RSTS can apparently see the hardware though:
> 
> RSTS V7.0-07 llama (DL0)
> 
> 
> Option: HA
> 
>    HARDWR suboption? LI
> 
>    Name  Address Vector  Comments
>    TT:    177560   060
>    RK:    177400   220   RK05F units: none
>    RL:    174400   160   Units: 0(RL01) 1(RL01) 2(RL01) 3(RL01)
>    RM:    177440   210   Units: 0(RK06) 1(RK06) 2(RK06) 3(RK06) 4(RK06)
>                                 5(RK06) 6(RK06) 7(RK06)
>    RR:    176700   254   BAE=+050, Units: 0(RM03) 1(RM03) 2(RM03)
>                                 3(RM03) 4(RM03) 5(RM03) 6(RM03) 7(RM03)
>    TM:    172520   224
>    PR0:   177550   070
>    PP0:   177554   074
>    LP0:   177514   200
>    RX0:   177170   264
>    KL0:   176500   300
>    KL1:   176510   310
>    KL2:   176520   320
>    KL3:   176530   330
>    KL4:   176540   340
>    KL5:   176550   350
>    KL6:   176560   360
>    KL7:   176570   370
>    DZ0:   160100   400
>    DZ1:   160110   410
> 
>    KW11L  177546   100
>    SR     177570
>    DR     177570
> 
>    Hertz = 60.
> 
>    Other: FPU, SL, 22-Bit Addressing, Cache w/address, System ID = 4660
> 
> If I boot an RSX-11M disk, then additional terminal interfaces seem to 
> work fine, so the problem seems specific to RSTS.   I saw references in 
> the list archive to other pre-built systems on www.rsts.org 
> <http://www.rsts.org> but that doesn't seem to be available at the 
> moment, so I can't try another build right now.
> 
> Any clues on what I'm missing ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Trevor
> 
> 
> 
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