[Simh] Is it possible to simulate the first Vaxen I ever used?

[Ray Jewhurst]

Matt Burke put together a 782 simulator. It's available at 9track.net
I've never tried it though.

Ray

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 8:46 PM Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> VAX-11/730 with a PDP-8 FEP would have been a rather odd creature.
>
> But VMS V2.4 sounds plausible for 1978. V3 or V4 feels like they should
> have been later.
>
> The VAX-11/782 was actually a multiprocessor VAX-11/780. Shared memory,
> but it was ASMP. Simh cannot emulate that one. However, you'll get
> mostly the same feeling with just a VAX-11/780 instead.
>
> There are no license manager for such old versions of VMS, so they will
> run no matter if you have PAKs or not.
>
> The FORTRAN compiler was, I would guess, FORTRAN-IV-PLUS. Which was a
> DEC variant. Essentially FORTRAN-IV on stereoids. Lots of things that
> was in there eventually turned up in FORTRAN-77 as well.
>
> And yes, I think most people agree it is "Vaxen".
>
>    Johnny
>
> On 2020-03-23 01:20, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
> > I believe it was a Vax 730 with a PDP-8 FEP, inside the main chassis it
> > actually had a part labelled (in big letters) "FUBAR" 🙂
> >
> > If I remember correctly, it ran VMS v2.4
> >
> > The Vax I have the most memories of though, which I'd also like to
> simulate,
> > was a Vax 782 (two 780s clustered I believe), and I'm not entirely sure
> > of the VMS version, could be v3.2 or v4.2
> >
> > People here would know which version was most likely in (guessing mid)
> > 1978 in North America (Ontario/Canada at Western University (UWO)).
> > I have lots of printouts, but I'm not sure I ever captured the version.
> >
> > Of course, I'll need the VMS images (which I may have) and the PAKs for
> > these versions...
> >
> > For sentimental/nostalgic purposes...
> >
> > I remember Fortran on the 782 was kinda wonky at the time, it didn't
> > seem to be able to make up its mind whether it was Fortran/IV or
> > Fortran-77 🙂
> >
> > Note: someone decades ago told me the plural for Vax was "Vaxen", and it
> > just stuck...
> >
> > Dan.
> >
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