[Info-vax] es40, was: Re: Use SimH/VAX to boot infoserver software?

[John E. Malmberg]

On 1/28/2019 1:17 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-01-27, John E. Malmberg <wb8tyw at qsl.net_work> wrote:
>>
>> I have seen many reports of es-40 being able to boot OpenVMS 8.4, so I
>> am trying to find time to set that up for a test.
>>
> 
> I've tried this. I managed to get this to work once a very long time ago
> (so I have forgotten the details), but it was _very_ es40 version specific
> so try a range of versions to see how the emulation behaviour changes if
> the currently latest version does not work.
> 
> Also look at changing the emulated hardware configuration to see if
> that changes the emulation behaviour.
> 
> IIRC, I got one version to install, but I had timekeeping problems,
> and another version installed VMS most of the way before the VMS
> installation routine failed with some internal error.

See (long URL)
https://www.openvmshobbyist.com/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=161&thread_id=2801

Some hints at what needs to be fixed, but I do not have a URL for any of 
the actual patches.

There is a URL for the start of another AXP emulator.

Regards,
-John