[HECnet] Getting openvms going

[Bill Cunningham]

On 11/14/2019 12:14 AM, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 4:46 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.
> What does "printing binary" mean?
>
>> 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.
> The latest code provides more robust/consistent behavior for simulators
> when the simulator user interacts with it.  In this particular case, the
> complete disk image is created at attach time instead of having it
> arbitrarily grow while the simulator is actually running.  Arbitrary
> expansion of the disk image while the simulator is busy executing
> instructions can create crazy errors if/when the host system runs
> out of disk space.  It is best to find this out at attach time rather at
> some random time later.  This approach also supports subsequent
> automatic disk type/size detection when you happen to restart the
> simulator later.  You'll now notice that later attach operations of
> VMS (and most other OS disk images) will announce the disk label
> and it's file system size when you attach a disk that has a ODS1,
> ODS2, RT11, Ultrix partition table, on it.
>
> Feel free to report any problems or other irregularities you may
> observe.
>
> - Mark

Well I to my knowledge have not had the problems you mentioned, my 
partition of my fedora host was made to be about 30 GB. I think around 
27 or so gibibytes is reported.

Bill