[Simh] More issues with RSX11M

[Phil J FIsher]

Hi Johnny

I have 7 "disks" and two of which are MAPSRC and UNMSRC; there is no EXCSRC.  Four are used for SYSGEN (as I suspect you know) including the two I mention.  The other three are a Fortran compiler pack, a AUTOPATCH1B disk and the actual Baseline disk.

I will check the disk archives to see if I can identify an EXCSRC for V3.2.

The choice of V3.2 is my history; it is the only version I used in my time using RSX and hence I vaguely recall some things about it.  Most of direct experience with DEC O/S was RT11 (V3B or V5) but we did use RSX11 for the last months I worked within a University department.  Also, from what I have found so far, there seems to be more information around for V3.2 than V4.x.

Thanks.
Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> 
Sent: 12 May 2020 18:44
To: phil.fisher at peejayeff.co.uk; simh at trailing-edge.com
Subject: Re: [Simh] More issues with RSX11M

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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