[HECnet] Getting openvms going

[Bill Cunningham]

On 11/13/2019 7:18 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
>> 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

Running on linux starting it up all kinds of printing binary you are 
running. I used "set rq0 ra92" and "att rq0 vms" a new file was being 
created and that took the longest. Before getting to the backup part of 
creating from the openvms73.iso backup.


Bill