[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Hobbyist Program Announced.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-06-16 kl. 23:12, skrev Hans Bachner:
> Craig A. Berry schrieb am 16.06.2019 um 20:59:
>> On 6/16/19 11:47 AM, Hans Bachner wrote:
>>
>>> It appears as if the Avanti systems (at least FreeAvanti) used EV6 CPU
>>> emulation regardless of the Alpha model configured.
>>
>> My hardware XP1000 says it's EV67 as expected:
>>
>> $ pipe show cpu/full | search sys$pipe "Type...........:"
>>          Type...........: EV67, Pass 2.2.3 & Pass 2.2.5
>>
>> What does the Avanti system say?
> 
> Jan-Erik posted the info in <qe5rho$6g9$1 at dont-email.me>:
> 
>> $ show cpu/fu
>>
>> System: STUDNT, AlphaServer 400 4/166
>>
>> CPU 0    State: RUN          CPUDB: 81C16000     Handle: * None *
>> ´[...]
>>              Type...........: EV4 (21064), Pass 2 or 2.1
>> [...]
> 

Thanks!
I was just going to ask Craig what he was missing from my post... :-)


> I don't know how Rdb checks for EV56 or above - presumably it uses the same 
> source as SHOW CPU and does not explicitly test whether specific 
> instructions are available or not. Of course I can be wrong.
> 

And I also think that the install will be aborted.
It is Rdb 7.3 that is EV56+ only. Rdb 7.2 still have a EV56- version.



> Hans.