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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I could buy Exceed (at a non-trivial price) to run
on my Windows laptop, but it would be even nicer if SIMH emulated one of the
low-end the Vaxstation graphics cards (QVSS?). There was talk a few years ago of
this being on the 'to do' list. Has it made any progress?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can't offer to do it myself (>10 years since I
did any significant programming), but I'd happily help debug if someone else
did.<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As a private project I'd like to get working and
preserve in SIMH a major Vaxstation-based mapping and cartographic system that I
was the architect of.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- <BR>Paul Hardy<BR>Email: <A
href="mailto:paul@paulhardy.net">paul@paulhardy.net</A>, web: <A
href="http://www.paulhardy.net">www.paulhardy.net</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<A title=david.hittner@ngc.com href="mailto:david.hittner@ngc.com">Hittner,
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=simh@trailing-edge.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 16, 2006 6:19 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Norton AntiSpam] Re: [Simh]
More on VAX Emulation under Linux</DIV>
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class=171124012-16062006>Can't answer your autoboot question. Look in the
SIMH FAQ and see if the answer is there. Make sure that you can write (save)
the NVR file, so that the changes can be saved for the next run. The order of
the dep bdr 0 may be important - it might need to be after the NVR load and/or
the set cpu conhalt.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=171124012-16062006>Running X on the system... you can start X
(@DECW$STARTUP) on a MicroVAX 3900 if you have the proper PAKs and software
loaded, so that you can connect to VMS via X using an external XServer,
but since the MicroVAX 3900 does not have the VAXStation 3900's
QDSS graphics console hardware, you cannot have a local X graphics
console monitor on the system.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=171124012-16062006>I connect my Hummingbird X Server (on Windows XP) to
my SIMH VAX running DECwindows to give me the nice DECterm all the time.
Much better than a standard VT220 emulation.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=171124012-16062006>Dave</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com
[mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>John<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 16, 2006 7:46 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
simh@trailing-edge.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Simh] More on VAX Emulation under
Linux<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>'lo all...<BR><BR>Well, I have an emulation of VAX running under
SIMH and it works Ok, thanks to Phillip Wherry's article, <A
href="http://www.wherry.com/gadgets/retrocomputing/vax-simh.html"><I>Running</A><A
href="http://www.wherry.com/gadgets/retrocomputing/vax-simh.html"> VAX/VMS
Under Linux Using SIMH</A></I>.<BR><BR>I've followed everything listed in
the article and even though there are a couple of things that need to be
updated in it (specifically about what happens when registering the VMS
Licence PAK), I've been able to get my 'VAX' (window) running under Linux
(I'm using a derivative of <A href="http://www.slackware.com/">Slackware
Linux</A> called <A href="http://www.zenwalk.org/">Zenwalk
Linux</A>).<BR><BR>Not being super-clever in terms of Linux, I was wondering
how the system might be set-up so that it 'effectively' boots as a VMS
system. I'm currently following the article and have a call to the VAX
emulator in a script that is called from /etc/rc.d/rc.local (and run with a
delay as a background process), as well as running Linux without X11.
This means the PC boots as a text-screen only Linux PC and I need to type
ALT-F8 to get to the VAX 'console'. When I do, the system is resting
at the boot prompt ('>>>') and I can start the VMS boot process
manually. I have the <I>dep bdr 0</I> and <I>set cpu conhalt</I>
commands in the vax.ini file, as written later in the article but the
emulation still wakes-up at the boot prompt the first time. If I
shutdown the VAX emulation (with/without reboot), it behaves as expected...
but how to get it running that first time?<BR><BR>Also, I wonder if it is
possible to get Motif/DecWindows running in this sort of system... We
have the licence PAKs etc but will the software/emulator handle the GUI side
of things... or do I need to have a real VAXstation?<BR><BR>Many
thanks, once again, for any
suggestions.<BR><BR>Regards<BR><BR><BR>John<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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