[HECnet] Getting openvms going

[Bill Cunningham]

On 11/13/2019 7:46 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>
> 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
>
Ok yes and

set rq1 cdrom

set rq1 openvms73.iso

was already set up