general/other Simh V3.9 buggy

[kalevik]

I tried to get 4.3BSD up and running on FreeBSD 15 using this information:

Install 4.3BSD Berkeley UNIX with VAX780 SimH Emulator and TCP/IP Networking » Soto Systems LLC

sotosystems.com

4.3BSD kernel crashes during install, making it impossible to proceed further:

fbsd15:~/4.3bsd $ vax780 install.ini

VAX780 simulator V3.9-0
loading ra(0,0)boot
Boot
: ra(0,0)vmunix
279844+80872+100324 start 0x12f8

Process PTE in P0 or P1 space, PC: 8002B82F (XORW3 @-7035(R8),@D0FF6436,@-70B0(R1))


I then tried on Fedora Linux 43 with Simh V3.12.5 and everything worked fine. I got 4.3BSD installed and was able to login.

Would it be possible to update Simh on FreeBSD 15? Thanks.

EDIT: I did git clone and built 4.0.0 Current. It solves the problem I described earlier, but crashes later. I would like to request V3.12.5 for FreeBSD, just like on Fedora 43.

EDIT: Inspecting git, I see there is no 3.12.5 tag but 3.12.2 works for me. I got 4.3BSD installed on FreeBSD 15. On Fedora 43, I even got TCP/IP networking up!

br,
KK

 

[kalevik]

I know this goes off-topic, but does anyone have really old tcsh sources like 5.x series? Using csh that comes with 4.3BSD is pretty horrible. I have tried to compile tcsh 6.0 and pdksh 5.12.2 but failed miserably. I would need really old K&R sources.