>I'm new to this fine place, but not so new to retrocomputing... I had a question... I wonder if any of you know the answer...
You might actually want to try posting these questions to USENET, I'm not sure how strong the RSTS/E experience is here...
>I'm trying to relive my misspent youth, spent hacking into the RSTS/E system at Arizona State Univerisity. I'm trying to set up a system with RSTS/E v9 and the version of Simh that supports DZ0: (DZ11) devices. (on http://elvira.stacken.kth.se)
Am I to understand that you're using a hacked version of SIMH V2.3? Go get a copy of the real thing, that will hopefully solve your problem.
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/
Bob, just released V3.0, V2.3 is *very* old.
>I have no problem building the system from the tapes (images)... that' s all fine. When you look at the HARDWR LIST (when you don't start timesharing) it sees the device (DZ0:) --but--
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>when I try to connect via telnet, I just get
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>"welcome to the PDP simulator" and then nothing.
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>I'm assuming that you have to set something, somewhere else, to enable the device. I've been though loads of RSTS/E manuals, and I can't figure it out.
I know I've had this working with SIMH under V10.1, and I think I've had it working with V9.something. That would have been using something like SIMH V2.9 or V2.10. Basically I just did a simple install following the instructions in my install manual.
You might be interested in the following webpage as well, it's part of my DEC Emulation website.
http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/pdp11emu.html
Overall, I find running RSTS/E under emulation to be preferable to running it on my PDP-11/73. My only problem has been that I can't get DECnet installed on either SIMH, E11, or the PDP-11/73. I can get the furthest on E11.
Thought for the day, installing RSTS/E by the book on a 2GB drive on a PDP-11/73 is "fun", it takes forever to do the three checks of the drive! As I recall, just one pass took over 12 hours. On an emulator, it's very fast.
Zane
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