[HECnet] SIMH idle

[Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm]

Hi Gregg,

When reporting simh issues, please do so using the issue system at https://github.com/simh/simh/issues This list doesn't feed into my primary mailbox, I often go weeks without reading stuff here and often miss many conversations.   If the process of creating and tracking issues on the github issue system doesn't work for you, feel free to explain why in private email to me at mark at infocomm.com.

Thanks.

- Mark

On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Gregg Levine wrote:
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:06 AM,   <Paul_Koning at dell.com> wrote:
PDP11 and VAX most definitely DO support idle.   PDP11 idle is tied to
the WAIT instruction, which is used by most operating systems (but not
by RT11).   VAX idle is tied to weird magic that matches code sequences
against known ways of various operating systems to code their idle
loops, so it's a bit more fragile -- and you have to tell it which OS
you're using.

              paul

On Jun 26, 2013, at 12:22 AM, Gregg Levine wrote:

Hello!
Mark, I've built SIMH (again) and had the rig record the build
functions via script. I then bundled up everything that could
possibly be of interest as you related an earlier discussion as it
applies to the emulated video display methods for several emulated
systems. I mentioned that it build properly as it applies to the
ones
I am interested in, but that the PDP11 and the VAX ones do not
support the Idle functions. As least it said idle disabled on the
opening screen for the SIMH PDP11 one. On the page describing what
Equipment Wanted is what I'm currently looking for, I added to the
text there my files that you're looking for, and they are named
simb.txt, and then pdp11.txt and then simstart.txt. Remember I
mentioned that I wasn't sure that this mail service supported
attachments.

On that previous e-mail I also mentioned what else was involved.
Please use it as a reference to those, and also include the relevant
earlier portions of that thread.

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Hello!
Good to know then Paul. However I'm waiting on an update from Mark on
the behind the scenes sorting. I'm still working on what will happen up
front however.....
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Dave please stop staring at that pair of big vans painted an annoying
green and that oddly colored old car......
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