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From: rick@NGP.UTEXAS.EDU (Rick Watson)
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Subject: Re: Reply to: teco for microvax i (vms 4.x)??
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Ok, in response to those who thought they could live with "unusably
slow".  (It takes about 2 minutes from "run tec.exe" to get the first
prompt.  It often takes a second or more to echo each character. This is
on an unloaded system.)

First, install VAX11-RSX on your microvax.  You will have to convince it
to install cem$emulator; this is not normally done on the Microvax-I.
You can either fix the command file that VMSINSTALL runs, or just
manually install that save set yourself.  As I remember, all you really
need to do is copy cem$emulator.exe to sys$share. Then
sys$manager:vax11rsx.com will find it and install it along with the rest
of RSX at system startup or whenever.  VAX11-RSX is a licensed VMS
product that you'll have to get from DEC if you don't already have it.

Then, you need a copy of TEC.EXE from a real RSX system or a RSX decus
tape.  If you don't have access to one, I could probably make it
available via FTP.  I'll have to verify that it is public domain. TECO
for VMS that starts up in native mode and then switches to compatibility
mode does not work.

Then just run TEC.EXE and wait.

If your MicroVax has lots of memory, you may be in better shape than I
am.  One problem with the emulator is that it is very large. The EXE
file is > 3000 blocks and you just page to death.  This is why DEC does
not support the emulator for the MicroVax-I. Their estimate for
performance was about 3% of a 780.

Rick Watson
University of Texas Computation Center
Austin, TX 78712
rick@ngp.UTEXAS.EDU rick@ngp.ARPA