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

[Brett Bump]

If you are booting the default monitor (Sysgen.sil) then Rsts will
only recognize the console terminal until you SYSGEN in the DZ11.
The Simulator will connect correctly but until you have a monitor
with the DZ11 support, the monitor will not respond to devices it
doesn't know exist (yet).  The HARDWARE LIST option is running
from INIT.SYS (it checks everything and will see all devices).

Pull a copy of the V7.0 pre-gen kit and see if you get the same
results (the pre-gen kits are all genned for 1 DZ11).  That would
be a quick diagnostic to check if it is the wrong .sil.

Brett

On Mon, 9 Dec 2019, 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 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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