Beginner's Supnik Emulator help

From: Jerome H. Fine <jhfinepw4z_at_compsys.to>
Date: Fri Nov 15 15:40:00 2002

>John Lawson wrote:

> > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> > > I downloaded E11 some years ago on a Pent I desktop but never got it to
> > >work, prolly due to no smarts on my part.
> > SIMH = Bob Supnik http://simh.trailing-edge.com/
> > E11 = John Wilson http://www.dbit.com
> Oh, Gawd... 1:30 am + Senior Moment... soory all. Wilson. sigh.

Jerome Fine replies:

PLUS, the commands used by each emulator are distinctly
different. So read the manuals carefully.

> > I'm not sure E11 will work under Win2k, especially if it's an older
> > version, I've heard that it won't.
> sigh sigh damn... I'll wait for further confirmation on this... Thanks
> Billy G!

I think I remember using E11 under Win2k, but I am not sure.
There are certain problems since E11 is designed for DOS.

However, I have run E11 under Windows 98 SE and Windows 95.
Both seem to work well and have the added advantage of using
the cache support which I don't think that DOS provides
automatically.

In addition, E11 is MUCH faster. I have run both E11 (Ersatz-11)
and SIMH on a 750 MHz Pentium III. E11 seems to be about
15 times faster than a real PDP-11/93. Depending on the compiler
used, SIMH seems to be about 2 times as fast as a real PDP-11/93.

> > This doesn't sound right, I'd recommend getting a copy of the latest
> > release. It sounds to me as if you might have gotten an infected copy of
> > E11 from somewhere.
> I downloaded what was listed as the latest rev... right from Dbit.

Your system could also be infected. I have not experienced
any problems similar to those that you mention.

> P'raps I should try the Other One... anyone here using it on W2K?

As I stated above, I think I tried. But there will be some restrictions
even if it works. With the same AGP video card, I can use 132
character lines with Windows 98 SE, but NOT with either WME
or WXP.

For those of you who know, I focus on running RT-11.
But no one else seems to care about fixing bugs in RT-11
let alone making enhancements. I hope by the end of 2003
to make V5.03 Y2K compliant, possibly even Y10K
compliant. Anyone interested? Y10K compliant will
required some agreements among RT-11 users, so I
hope that this post can start that public discussion!

Sincerely yours,

Jerome Fine
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