[pups] Re: Begemot emulator (was: Stray Interupts)

[Harti Brandt]

On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Greg Lehey wrote:

GL>On Friday, 23 February 2001 at  8:43:41 -0500, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
GL>> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
GL>>> 	so the machine can be placed on a network.  P11's also quite a bit
GL>>> 	more efficient/fast.   Configuration can be puzzling but sample
GL>>> 	config files are available (from various PUPS folks who run P11).
GL>>
GL>> I would love to us the Begemot emulator.  I have the latest version but
GL>> I have been unable to get any of my disk images to work.  Can anyone
GL>> tell me if you can use the disk images from the other emulators and if
GL>> so, how??  Do they have to be converted somehow like tapes??
GL>
GL>*sigh* The Begemot emulator has bitrotted a little.  I can no longer
GL>get it to work, though admittedly I didn't try very hard the last
GL>time, and it may be something as simple as a corrupted disk image.
GL>But the other thing is that the Begemot ftp site is no longer
GL>accessible, which is somewhat embarrassing, since I host it.  I'm
GL>copying JЖrg Micheel and Harti Brandt, the Begemot people, and I hope
GL>that we'll get it up again soon.  JЖrg, Harti, the problem is that I
GL>migrated a system disk, and seem to have lost the connection to the
GL>ftp files.  You should find them somewhere on the file systems
GL>/freebie or /freebie/usr, which are the old system disk, still
GL>spinning.

I have done some work on the emulator last autumn and plan to release
a new version Real-Soon-Now(tm). Well, I think I will to a

kill -STOP `cat /var/run/currentwork`

and try to do it in the next couple of days.

Please watch the alt.sys.pdp11 for an anouncement.

Disc images work directly (at least the images from Bob Supnik do).

harti
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              brandt at fokus.gmd.de, harti at begemot.org


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