[HECnet] Anyone got TOPS-20 / Ultrix with DECNET SIMH image ready to run?

[Clem Cole]

Check out "the Unix Heritage Society":    http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl to see what was "released" to the world.   My memory is that DEC only released a very early version of Ultrix.

The last release of Ultrix was something like 4.6 (I'll have the check my notes, but I'm traveling) - and on PMAX and VAX.

Over the course of time, Ultrix ran on:    PDP-11 models with a MMU both with and without separated I/D space, most of not all of the Vaxen (except for the 9000 I believe), and MIPS 2K,3K,4K systems that Digital made.

Historical note:   the original Alpha HW was brought up running Ultrix, but that was never a product ;-)

Later version of Ultrix will run best on PMAX's made with a MIPS 4400 - which was the last "new" processor that Ultrix supported.



On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Joe Ferraro <jferraro at gmail.com> wrote:
Admittedly, posting without quick research, apologies... 

Where does one come by Ultrix sources these days, is it hobbyist licensable (or "abandonware"), and what hardware is needed? 

Joe


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
I'm going for Ultrix for now - I'm a total TOPS-20 noob, would need a lot of hand-holding to get the thing to run I fear...


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On 11 Jun 2013, at 11:36, Robert Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:

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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-
>> hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
>> Sent: 11 June 2013 09:13
>> To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
>> Cc: Sampsa Laine
>> Subject: Re: [HECnet] Anyone got TOPS-20 / Ultrix with DECNET SIMH image
>> ready to run?
>>
>> Al 11/06/13 10:05, En/na Sampsa Laine ha escrit:
>>> Got some spare cycles/RAM on one of my boxes, would be fun to run
>> TOPS-20 or Ultrix with DECNET?
>>>
>>> Anyone got a working image / HOWTO on getting this going?
>> For TOPS-20, you can enable DECNET in the panda distribution with not too
>> much effort. I tried to explain how to do it here:
>>
>> http://ancientbits.blogspot.com.es/2013/05/ten-over-pi.html
>>
>> The main problem is the network setup. You will have to work in shared
>> mode and it can wreck the host machine NIC.
>
> Aren't we mixing up a couple of things here?
>
> The Panda distribution, as far as I know, runs on the KL, which SIMH does
> not emulate. SIMH emulates the KS and right now you can't run DECnet on the
> KS. There is work being done now to bring the KMC/DUP emulation to SIMH to
> allow DECnet to run on the KS. You should contact the SIMH mailing list for
> status on this.
>
> Regards
>
> Rob
>