30 Jan
2002
30 Jan
'02
3:51 p.m.
I hear mixed messages about that. Is there someone who knows,
and not only if any, but also which version of UNIX would run?
I want to give it a shot.
Also, has anybody ever run a VAX11 in PDP mode for real? Sound
pretty wild to me to spend so much money only to not use the
virtual memory.
cheers,
-Gunther
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Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org
Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org
30 Jan
30 Jan
10:53 p.m.
There are versions of Xinu (which is not Unix) which run on the '03.
There are probably versions of Venix (which is like Unix) which run
on the '03.
We used the compatability mode to run old Unix V6 and V7 binaries
under BSD Unix on the Vax. Mostly old games like adventure:-)
--tom
At 12:51 AM 1/31/02 -0500, you wrote:
I hear mixed messages about that. Is there someone who
knows,
and not only if any, but also which version of UNIX would run?
I want to give it a shot.
Also, has anybody ever run a VAX11 in PDP mode for real? Sound
pretty wild to me to spend so much money only to not use the
virtual memory.
cheers,
-Gunther
--
Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org
Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org
4:08 a.m.
You could add "/CLI=MCR" to your login name, or even have your account
set to MCR as the default command language interpreter. With that, you
were even supposed to be able to do a complete SYSGEN for RSX-11.
This was my first attempt at SYSGEN, but I only found out I know so
little about SYSGEN that I better go for the real machine in order to
simplify things.
BTW, OpenVMS on today's Alphas doesn't come with an MCR.EXE (or even
MCR.TSK ;-) anymore, but you can (in DCL) still say MCR <filename>, and
this will run SYS$SYSTEM:<filename>.EXE, passing remaining command line
arguments to the program. Try, for example, MCR AUTHORIZE SHOW/BRIEF
SYSTEM (requires SYSPRV) or MCR NCP SHOW KNOWN LINES.
Andreas
John Allain wrote:
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Andreas Freiherr
Vishay Semiconductor GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany
http://www.vishay.com
has anybody ever run a VAX11 in PDP mode for
real?
I did, but not seriously.
On an 11/780 for one, you could say "MCR PDP" IIRC
and do some basic operations. I think it was intended
to help people do porting without having to have the
other machine present.
John A. 
2:45 p.m.
--On Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:51 AM -0500 Gunther Schadow
<gunther(a)aurora.regenstrief.org> wrote:
I hear mixed messages about that. Is there someone who
knows,
and not only if any, but also which version of UNIX would run?
I want to give it a shot.
You can. There was LSX (described in BSTJ, July 78) and and people also
got MiniUnix (a V6 variant that didn't need an MMU) to run on the LSI-11.
MiniUnix has the advantage of already being in the PUPS archive, and while
I haven't tried it, I have a book (Laboratory Minicomputing by John R.
Bourne) with a two page appendix describing the necessary mods. If you
send me your address, I'll mail you a copy.
-- Brian
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Brian Harrington
Milton S. Eisenhower Library
The Johns Hopkins University
brian(a)sigh.mse.jhu.edu
1 Feb
1 Feb
8:25 a.m.
Thanks for the lead. Will then try MiniUnix. My address is
8839 Rexford Road, Indianapolis, IN 46260. Thanks.
-Gunther
Brian Harrington wrote:
--On Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:51 AM -0500 Gunther
Schadow
<gunther(a)aurora.regenstrief.org> wrote:
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Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org
Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org
I hear mixed messages about that. Is there someone
who knows,
and not only if any, but also which version of UNIX would run?
I want to give it a shot.
You can. There was LSX (described in BSTJ, July 78) and and people also
got MiniUnix (a V6 variant that didn't need an MMU) to run on the LSI-11.
MiniUnix has the advantage of already being in the PUPS archive, and while
I haven't tried it, I have a book (Laboratory Minicomputing by John R.
Bourne) with a two page appendix describing the necessary mods. If you
send me your address, I'll mail you a copy.
-- Brian
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Brian Harrington
Milton S. Eisenhower Library
The Johns Hopkins University
brian(a)sigh.mse.jhu.edu
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