1 Sep
2004
1 Sep
'04
3:34 a.m.
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, John Allain wrote:
Being able to meet Bob Supnik personally at the VCFe
(Thanks to
Sellam), I bid any reservations against using SIMH farewell.
Have had a hell of a nice time since then. Turns out my oldish PC (4.5
years) has the same speed as my best microVAX (<5Vups), as an aside.
For some it
works, for others it doesn't. SimH does not do exact
simulation (for at least PDP-11 and VAX architectures) so its
machine footprint to the operating system software is rather
messy and confusing. That said.. it's decent. I use it for
VAX, mostly.
As I understand it, the way to get a decent screen up
under the current
SIMH arrangement is to run it networked to another machine with either
X11 services or rlogin and there you can get the screen that you want.
Correct. So
good luck on standalone systems, or on Win32 platforms in
a command window. I did a VT module for it, as well as someone else,
but Bob dumped it and favored the "telnet console" method.
--f