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00:00hello everybody please don't forget to subscribe like share and comment and why not become a
00:06member i wanted to emulate openvms the fax version if i'm not mistaken and the way to do it is
00:16using
00:17a piece of software called open sim as such if i said that right so let's do it together
00:26i have here arch linux the piece of software that we're talking about which is open cmh exists in
00:37the aur and i saw it also in some other linux distributions repositories to install this piece
00:48of software from the aur we run these commands for the manual method
01:18or if you have an aur helper for instance yay the command is like this the syntax may differ from
01:28an aur helper to another make sure you use the correct syntax for installing the application
01:45okay sorry the command for this one should be like this and let's confirm it is the correct one
01:58yes it is so instead of this one the correct command is this one and then it becomes like this
02:23that's that's for the manual method of installing it let's use the one with the aur helper it should be
02:33like this and in the case of yay here i will press enter enter again
02:55here i will choose y and enter password
03:01y again and enter
03:05here y and enter
03:10password enter
03:14password here enter y and enter
03:22okay so the installation is done let's clear the screen out
03:38wax 3100
03:44or we need to look for the executable
03:50microvax yes 3100 for this
03:56for the installation of course you need to have
03:59the installation medium in my case i got one here
04:05i may change the name later when we want to make the configuration file
04:11uh
04:20let's clear out the screen
04:23we make a directory
04:26we call it
04:27wax
04:28vms
04:30this is optional
04:32you can call it the way you like you can place it wherever you like
04:37i'm just gonna put all the files there for the sake of simplicity
04:45i'm gonna
04:54we will
04:58cut and paste the installation medium to that directory
05:08and then we go there change directory into there we make a file
05:17this file
05:18this file also is optional you may run
05:24the lines that will be written in it one by one
05:29we call it fax.ini
05:33i and then
05:38you go to it
05:42and now before that we
05:45change the name of
05:49the installation medium
05:51so
05:52this is optional as well as long as
05:56you type it correctly in the configuration file
06:00you don't need to change it
06:02so we run this command
06:06we make it
06:08open
06:09vms
06:1273
06:19vax.iso
06:22to differentiate between it and
06:24any other potential
06:27different architecture
06:30medium
06:31like this
06:32now we have
06:34this one over here
06:37and our configuration file
06:39which we will start editing now
06:57uh this is for certain the architecture of the cpu
07:00and i guess the ram if i'm not mistaken
07:04correct me in the comments down below since i'm not very familiar with these things
07:16this will be generated during the installation
07:29save and exit
07:31we take this
07:34name
07:36and
07:38here
07:39and this line for rq1
07:42we paste it
07:43in case you didn't change the name
07:45and you copied it pasted it the way i did
07:48you don't need to worry
07:50if it's not in the same path
07:52you may need to type the full path
07:55here
07:58in front of this one
08:00in front of this one
08:01make sure you type the full path
08:04in my case
08:05to simplify it i simply put it in the same
08:09directory
08:09we save
08:14and exit
08:20uh we said
08:24our
08:26simh
08:28microvax
08:303100
08:32vax.ini
08:36this is in case of the native installation
08:40make sure
08:41the executable is the same
08:44in case you compiled from source
08:46this may become vax only
08:48or vax 3100
08:51and to run it you run dot slash
08:53vax
08:55vax dot
08:56ini
08:59and in case it is vax 3100
09:03you run it
09:04like this
09:06is it the only way to
09:08run it
09:09no you may need to
09:10type all those commands that i showed you
09:13within the shell of the emulator
09:16in case you chose to do it manually
09:19in the case of the
09:25native installation like mine
09:29the executable is within the paths of your system
09:34so you may
09:35run it this way
09:38to solve this error
09:40we install
09:42this package
09:51make sure you have vax installed
09:54like this
09:56password
10:00y and enter
10:02let's try again
10:05yes we need to create some symbolic links
10:14the first command
10:25and the second command
10:29must be like this
10:38let's try again
10:52i guess it should be like this
10:55and
10:58the second symbolic link must be
11:03like this
11:05this one
11:10like this
11:11you run this command to make it
11:13make sure
11:17you remove
11:19the file created when you make
11:22the symbolic
11:23the second symbolic link
11:25like i did
11:26if you run the command
11:29like this one
11:31make sure you remove this file
11:35which i did
11:36here
11:37as you can see
11:40like this
11:42like this
11:42and then
11:43you create the symbolic link
11:46second one
11:47like this
11:49so we run the command
11:53like this
12:07we run boot rq one
12:10we run boot rq one
12:21we will continue with the configuration of the emulator
12:25and the setup of openvms
12:28i have done some of the stuff that i thought is ready
12:32to be edited and then uploaded
12:35then i discovered that i was using the wrong input
12:39it wasn't set to this microphone
12:42for a better audio quality
12:47i found this website which gives an example of the configuration file
12:53which is .ini
12:55there are some of the steps that i skipped here
12:58you can follow the steps here
13:01one by one as long as you have
13:03a debian based distribution
13:06here i guess they used
13:08ubuntu 20.04 if i'm not mistaken
13:12for me i used arch linux and i installed the package
13:16natively which is open simh
13:20which they only compiled the emulator of vax 8600
13:27which we can use in our case
13:30for me i just changed two parameters in this configuration file
13:35the first one is this one
13:38i just got rid of this whole path
13:40since i wanted to have
13:41this rq0-ra92.dsk in the same folder where i am trying to emulate
13:53the this machine
13:56and for this one i changed it to my
14:01iso which i have in the same directory which is this one
14:07here is the rq0-ra92.dsk it was created
14:14and here is the iso that i used
14:20i'll show you here it is i have put it here
14:26and this one it's in the same directory
14:31the rest i just copied and pasted from this page
14:38so
14:42i can now run simh-vax 8600
14:53it should work without the need to
14:56oh yeah i guess we need to specify
15:00to exit out of here we can press ctrl e
15:03or ctrl d no ctrl e no
15:06exit
15:07we need to specify our configuration file which i call it vax.ini
15:13and i like this
15:17yes
15:19there is a step that i ran which is
15:23this one boot rq3
15:25and then also i backed up
15:28the thing that is supposed to be backed up which i don't know what it is exactly
15:33i just run it in order to go further with the installation
15:37let's try to do it first one is boot rq3 right yes enter
15:47it should take us to something related to open vms it will ask us for the date
15:57here it is
16:01i thought i'm using
16:05open vms 7.3 but it is 7.2 here we type the date
16:21like this
16:25we must run this command which is this one
16:29with some modification it can
16:33become correct since we are not trying to install open vms 7.1
16:39it will ask us about some devices we need to confirm that we there is none missing
16:46if you of course want to run all the steps here one by one make sure you get
16:51openvms 7.1 i guess they provide it in this website but it's not free
16:59so i will try to run this command
17:04before that i need to confirm that the devices
17:06is miss nothing
17:10let's run that command
17:24so it is back up
17:29do a 3 colon vms 0 7 2 dot b slash
17:41save underscore set
17:49do a 0 colon enter
18:07you cannot simply copy and paste this one
18:11since you cannot edit it at least for what i tried i'm not familiar with openvms nor did i ever
18:19use it
18:19before this is my first time that's why you see me rambling more than usual
18:27of course if you know something about this and you want to correct anything please tell me in the comments
18:32down below
18:35this may take some time as you can see
18:38all right it says here operation completed process and finish it which means that it is successful
18:45you type yes here and enter or control e as this tutorial says and then we can now run boot
18:55rq 0 enter
18:59this will take us to the installation of openvms for vax instead of 7.2 here 7.1 i'm using
19:087.2 it will ask us for the for the date
19:28we're keeping up with the installation of openvms emulating vax machine for it using opencmh emulator
19:40my installation lags a lot it took me 10 minutes to type the date that's why it would
19:48got late so i went to sleep and thought of continuing in another day so let's go to
19:55the directory where i have everything set including my .ini file which is the configuration file
20:06we go to it and we will change some stuff in it we go to
20:15we need to disable the ethernet controller for now to make it a command we type semicolon we can enable
20:23it enable it later by removing that semicolon
20:28i don't know i don't know if this needs to be disabled this one is also different with the interface
20:37that i'm using i just took it from the file that you saw or the page that you saw it's
20:43also a file
20:43like this we save and exit and then we run
20:52cmh vax
20:5680 600
21:00vax.ini
21:05let's hope we can jump directly into the installation by running boot rq0
21:15let's run it boot rq0 enter
21:21sounds like it is working well
21:25the step of running the command backup yada yada is in the part before this one that i recorded
21:35and i probably yesterday
21:39so it sounds like it is working
21:44let's see if the date is gonna take forever to type no this time it's fine so
21:49consider disabling the network interface as long as it is not the correct one like mine
21:57in order to reduce the lag the time now i don't think it matters much so i will simply input
22:05a random
22:06one despite changing only the year enter here
22:16let's see what next there will be some questions like do you want to install the open vms library files
22:27and whatnot so we answer those questions we'll get our installation
22:35working open the enter the volume label for the system disk
22:43enter
22:44enter the name enter name of drive holding the open vms distribution media so
22:52it should be here dua3 dua3 enter is the open vms media ready to be mounted
23:05y i'm just following the page you're gonna find it in the description enter here do you want to install
23:13this one y enter y enter do you want to install this one ms
23:25yeah i'll just follow the tutorial yeah i'll just follow the tutorial yeah it's a tutorial tutorial
23:33uh i would like to have as many apps as available to test them why
23:44do you want to install
23:53where do you want yeah here we press enter probably enter you want to install the y enter
24:00why enter why enter why enter video fonts
24:14yes here we press y enter
24:15this one chose no this one chose no i hope that doesn't ruin the installation
24:26that's fine let's press here y enter
24:32why enter
24:36yes here we press y and enter
24:40here we press y and enter
24:45now we make a password for the user system
24:54okay you can see the requirements for it since i typed
25:00a password that doesn't match with them again
25:09the second user's password
25:17now the user field i guess
25:28again this is for confirmation enter
25:39open vms vax
25:43enter
25:51okay vms vax only
25:57yes let's see what they give here
26:09the id uh
26:141001
26:19okay 127 like in the page enter
26:29uh this is for the licensing
26:33i don't have any product authorization keys
26:36so i'll press n here and enter
26:42let's see
26:46here i should choose time zone
26:52i'll simply go with number 19
26:58enter enter
27:00enter again
27:04and here
27:05and here
27:19do a3
27:21do a3 enter
27:25y and enter
27:33enter here
27:36enter here
27:37enter again
27:38all right the installation is done
27:42it rebooted itself and took us to the
27:46login prompt
27:47login prompt let's try to login using the system user
27:54all right
27:56show cpu
28:03directory
28:04directory
28:08yes you can also
28:12type help
28:17they say that this is so
28:20useful let's press return to continue
28:26you have java here
28:29that's good
28:35dcl
28:40so this is interactive
28:42does ctrl c take us out like in bash
28:48yes
28:51no clear
28:53no
28:55we need to know what are the equivalent commands of these ones
28:59when it comes to the shell of
29:03vms
29:03vms
29:05to get for instance the system info we type show rsh
29:11no show system i was trying to press the backspace to remove
29:16some of the
29:18typed
29:20letters but doesn't work show system
29:24we have here things that you can see
29:28the node is called vmsvax this is a good system when it comes to clustering
29:39ipconfig no ipconfig show network
29:48as such network
29:53no such network like this
29:56as such replaces show
30:01as such hard drive
30:07such
30:14rom
30:24yeah i guess this is similar to free
30:27the command free for unix based computers or probably linux i'm not sure if it is
30:34available outside of linux ecosystem
30:37anyway that was the setup of openvms
30:42the vax variant
30:45on open sim edge
30:47emulator
30:49i'm signing out and see you in another one
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