Opensimh issue

[John Blackburn]

Hi,

I have installed opensimh on my Macbook, so I can do some networking development work for the PDP10.  I have installed Tops20 and I can get it to run booted from mag tape.  However, there are a couple of peculiarities:

1.)  When I login [ LOG OPERATOR ] and hit return I immediately receive
       "Incorrect Password".  I can login if I type the login command immediately
       followed by the password on the same line.

2.)   When I go into wheels privilege mode and type:  ^ECEASE NOW  it rejects the
        keyword NOW and doesn't shutdown.  I have tried a number of other possible
        commands including "SHUTDOWN" and none of them work.  I have to terminate the
        MACOS  window to get out of it.   Any ideas ?

Many Thanks

John

[Adam Morris]

The biggest issue I have is how to pronounce Opensimh.  I am learning Gaelic at the moment and "mh" is pronounced as "v".  So this would be open sieve, but then I usually want to add an extra H in and I think open shiv.

What do others think or say?

Adam

[Lawrence Harris]

Just pedantic, open sim h for me

Lawrence

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[Tim Radde]

Same for me.  I've always pronounced it as Open Sim H.

[John Francini]

Hello John,

I don't believe that DEC-distributed TOPS-20's LOGIN command has a "press RETURN after username and get a password prompt" mode. I've always had to type the password on the same line.  If you use the command-completion and incremental help features - which work everywhere, even when logged-out - it should be something like this:

[letters I typed are in lower-case; the system's responses are in upper-case; a "$" means I pressed ESCape at that point:]

@log$IN (USERNAME) operator $(PASSWORD) password 

For ^ECEASE have you tried typing a ? to get a list of options?

Thanks and regards,

John

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