Re: [TUHS] The Tim Shoppa distribution of V6 - TUHS

30 Jun 2002

Hello from Gregg C Levine
Thank you for your kind advice, Warren. However, I have tried most of the
other members of that directory, and yes, it does work. I am curious about
this one, because it appears to be decidely different then say an actual
distribution of V6. I am also looking at the ones that came from the
Research area.
Gregg C Levine drwho8(a)worldnet.att.net
"How many floors does this TARDIS of yours have, anyway?"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren Toomey" &lt;wkt(a)minnie.tuhs.org&gt;
To: "Gregg C Levine" &lt;drwho8(a)worldnet.att.net&gt;
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The Tim Shoppa distribution of V6

...
  In article by Gregg C Levine:
 > On the FTP site, is a a V6 distribution contributed by Tim Shoppa. It is
 > created for the PDP-11/23, and there is a good readme.txt file that explains
...
  > the different images, and how they got there.
However, has anyone actually
...
  > gotten the distribution to boot, using a version
of Simh? A text file of
 > commands to be fed to the Simh program would be a great help.
 > I have mine, built using the MingW compiler, and this is version 2.9-10.
 > Also, if anyone has gotten it to boot on real hardware, that would a be a
...
   great plus.

 Gregg, I'd first try the other V6 boot images found in:

 http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Boot_Images

 e.g  v6_rl02_unknown.gz

 to make sure that they will boot with the Supnik emulator.
 You might also find that the Supnik emulator can't emulate
 an 11/23. So I would also try the Ersatz emulator and set
 it's CPU to be a 23.

 In other words, try a known bootable image first, then
 try Ersatz-11 as an 11/23 on that same bootable image,
 and then try Tim Shoppa's image.

 Warren