david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) (04/03/85)
Here is the problem. Our -750 has 3 eagles attached to it. We need to have the G&H floating point available for mathematics researchers. (For you new-comers, G&H floating point is much larger precision than the normal precision you get from single and double). Our only method right now is to re-boot VMS whenever we have a powerfail. This is because VMS knows how to reload the floating point microcode, but Unix doesn't. That is our only use for VMS. But to do this we need to tie up one of our eagles. And we're tight on disk space. (who isn't?) I've installed a boot program provided by Dec which makes the updates to the microcode. (Loads the file "/pcs750.bin" and patches it into the microcode). I have a Vax architecture reference manual. But the only thing it has about WCS registers is for the -780. I have the tu58 tape the Dec man used to patch vms to load the floating point. He gave me an algorithm to use to read the contents of that tape and get them to Unix. So. Do I have enough information? Has anybody had any experience with this kind of thing? -- --- David Herron --- ARPA-> ukma!david<@ANL-MCS> or david%ukma.uucp@anl-mcs.arpa --- Or even anlams!ukma!david@ucbvax.arpa --- UUCP-> {ucbvax,unmvax,boulder,oddjob}!anlams!ukma!david --- cbosgd!ukma!david "The home of poly-unsaturated thinking".