[HECnet] AXPBox

[Supratim Sanyal]

It crashes on starting DECnet Phase IV. I installed from VSI's 
"ALPHA0842L1.ISO" and HPE's "OpenVMS_8.3_Alpha.iso". Same crash in 
NETACP in both cases. Guess we will have to wait for this to get 
resolved, unless this is a known issue for DECnet Phase IV on OpenVMS 
Alpha 8.x.

**** OpenVMS Alpha Operating System V8.3     - BUGCHECK ****

** Bugcheck code = 00000215: MACHINECHK, Machine check while in kernel mode
** Crash CPU: 00000000    Primary CPU: 00000000    Node Name: AXPBOX
** Supported CPU count:   00000004
** Active CPUs:           00000000.00000001
** Current Process:       NETACP
** Current PSB ID:        00000001
** Image Name: AXPBOX$DQA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSEXE]NETACP.EXE;1

**** Starting compressed selective memory dump at 13-NOV-2020 23:13...
.....................................
** System space, key processes, and key global pages have been dumped.
** Now dumping remaining processes and global pages...
.......
...Complete ****

halted CPU 0

- Supratim

On 11/5/20 5:42 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
> The key thing is the progress this represents.  The fact that you got 
> it running at all would seem to put it ahead of Jonathan D. Belanger’s 
> DECaxp fork.  I believe some folks had gotten ES40 to sort of boot, 
> but I don’t think they got as far as any networking.  AXPbox 
> represents a very important path forward for the OpenVMS Hobbyist 
> community, and I wish the folks working on it nothing but the best!
>
> In all fairness, you shouldn’t expect good performance from any 
> Raspberry Pi that’s being used to emulate a DEC Alpha.  The commercial 
> Alpha emulators really expect you to be running on a high-end system.
>
> The DEC Alpha page on my DEC Emulation website has just been updated 
> to reflect this news.
> http://www.avanthar.com/healyzh/decemulation/Alpha.html 
> <http://www.avanthar.com/healyzh/decemulation/Alpha.html>
>
> If anyone has any information on Jonathan D. Belanger’s DECaxp fork, 
> I’d be interested.
>
> Zane
>
>
>
>> On Nov 5, 2020, at 1:02 PM, Keith Halewood 
>> <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org <mailto:Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> It seems quite unstable in places.... and very slow.
>> I got it running on a raspberry Pi 4 with the 64bit OS.
>>
>>> On 5 Nov 2020, at 20:32, Supratim Sanyal <supratim at riseup.net 
>>> <mailto:supratim at riseup.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Not sure if you guys knew about this emulator forked off ES40, but 
>>> looks promising enough.
>>>
>>> https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Installing_OpenVMS_8.4_Alpha_in_AXPbox_with_networking.html 
>>> <https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Installing_OpenVMS_8.4_Alpha_in_AXPbox_with_networking.html>
>>>
>>>
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