This weekend while at HOPE I will set up simh and experiment. I don't believe in my actual 11/40 I have an EIS card installed. I have not used simh for pdp 11 RT11 yet, I only used for other things.
I have never actually used rt11, although it seems similar to Pdp8 OS8. When you say that you can load a job monitor, do you mean "boot" see an OS prompt so I can then run commands? I need to learn more, I assume we were talking "get to the dot prompt".
Because in SIMH for the 11/40 EIS is standard, you CANNOT disable it, (i.e. SET CPU NOEIS), I seriously wonder if this is going to hamper using RT11 even with 64K