[HECnet] SIMH VAX config changes

[David Moylan]

I thought the same re: old version of SIMH, but Bob refers to the downloads on the trailing-edge.com site as "Classic". His version 3.11 is dated February 2020.
Mark's github is constantly being updated, however.

I've always built SIMH from github and not used the other downloads as I thought Bob's releases might be getting a bit stale. I noticed some updated networking code for the VAX network adapters as well as some console access and some funky paper tape handling in github. I wondered if all that existed in Bob's release as well.

Cheers, Wiz!!


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist
Sent: Tuesday, 28 July 2020 11:23 PM
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE; Boyanich, Alastair <Alastair.Boyanich at au.fujitsu.com>; Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [HECnet] SIMH VAX config changes

It might not be that old. I've not really kept up to date, but as far as I know/remember, simh now exists in two branches. There is the V4 version, managed by Mark, which is on github, and then Bob have continued V3 development on his own, which *might* be at 3.11...

   Johnny

On 2020-07-28 15:09, Paul Koning wrote:
> 3.11?  That sounds very old.
> 
> I don't know if there are formal releases of SIMH any longer.  It's on 
> Github.  There's been a lot of work ongoing, it may well be that the 
> trouble you saw has been fixed.  In any case, it's more likely you can 
> get effective help if you run the current code.
> 
> I use the pdp11 emulator with pcap and it works well.
> 
> BTW, there's a list for SIMH: simh at trailing-edge.com 
> <mailto:simh at trailing-edge.com>
> 
> paul
> 
>> On Jul 28, 2020, at 1:59 AM, Boyanich, Alastair 
>> <Alastair.Boyanich at au.fujitsu.com 
>> <mailto:Alastair.Boyanich at au.fujitsu.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>> I’ve just cycled one of my old systems which in addition to regular 
>> duties also ran my VMS on SIMH system which participated with some of 
>> my real VAXen and Alpha systems. I’ve built v3.11 of simh  ...

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