[Info-vax] VMS VAX and SimH VAX

[Paul Sture]

On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 06:56:00 -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote:

> On 4/1/2012 7:34 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
> 
>> One important thing however: The SimH documentation which arrived on my
>> system via the Ubuntu "apt-get install simh" command was seriously out
>> of date (2005).  By grabbing the tar.gz file from github I got much
>> more up to date readme files, with 0readme_ethernet.txt in particular
>> containing the incantations to get tap working for the network.
> 
> Ubuntu documentation for SimH also states that because of the copyright
> restrictions, they are not including the ROM images needed to get SimH
> VAX to work.

I saw that and wondered about it, but I had copied my SimH working 
directory from an OS X installation I did several years ago, and had the 
ROM images already.

> For that reason, I downloaded the source from the SimH home page, and
> with a small fix to the makefile because one of the libraries was in a
> different location, it worked.

I didn't encounter that problem with the githib RC2 version.

-- 
Paul Sture