[Simh] More issues with RSX11M

[Johnny Billquist]

You have some special masochistic wish since you're doing 11M instead of 
M+, and a rather old version at that...? :-)

On 2020-05-12 16:33, Phil J FIsher wrote:
> Following a recent post (where people were good enough to point me at the
> "missing links" so to write) I have SYSGENd a RSX11M system on a PDP11/70
> SimH setup.
> 
> However, in following the V3.2 RSX11M System Generation guide, chapter 10
> indicates there should be a command file (SAM.CMD) available in UIC [2,300]
> to verify the generated and running system.  Unfortunately, my set of RL01
> distribution media for V3.2 does not seem to have this file or any other
> files in that UIC.  Searching via Mr. Goggle has not brought up anything
> useful for this (but some old correspondence from Johnny Bilquist on
> someone's real 11/73 RSX was interesting a few years back ...).

You need the right pack. With RL distributions, you should have four 
disk packs... I can't tell for sure which one is supposed to hold 
SAM.CMD, but it might be EXCSRC.

> My question is to whether anyone knows how to obtain this file (and any
> necessary additional files implied) and if so, where I can download from?  I
> have checked the media I have and it does not seem to exist on any of the
> four disk images I have for V3.2.
> It is clearly possible, since I am no longer as good with stuff as I used to
> be, that it is there somewhere but extensive checking of file listings has
> failed to find it.
> 
> My thanks to all who replied to my post about the missing links.

Good luck. :-)

   Johnny

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