[HECnet] Getting openvms going

Mark Pizzolato Mark at infocomm.com
Wed Nov 13 16:18:57 PST 2019


> On 11/13/19 6:31 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>>> The "HELP TQ ATTACH" command should help with more detail.
>> I tried "H tq att". Didn't work, humm I think I have 3.9. I will look
>> for a newer version.
>    You may need to build from source; I suspect that new tape mode is
> a fairly recent addition.  Package repositories are notorious for
> lagging months or years behind, and simh is under fairly rapid
> development these days.  (thanks Mark!)
>
>               -Dave
> Hum ok I compiled simh-master.zip. The source I had I compiled using gcc
> was from http://simh.trailing-edge.com so it might've been old. 
> This newer one is slower but I see the new help tq attach options.

What do you mean by "slower".  Slower by a second  or so to get to 
an initial sim> prompt, or slower to execute instructions?

- Mark




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