On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Philipp Hachtmann <hachti at hachti.de> wrote:
And be sure: If you release your software, I'll
try it out.
I see that you use Windows on the server side - I don't have Windows :-(
Nor I, but I'm excited by the possibility of this driver. In a way,
it's like the old attempts to implement an OS/8 TU58 handler when it
was new, but without needing to implement a BREAK to get the storage
device's attention.
Does it run under Linux as well? Or is the core
functionality encapsuled
platform independent? Or do I have to make a Linux version?
I'd love to see this running on a Raspberry Pi (using the built-in
serial port with a level shifter not a USB serial dongle). _I_ would
be happy to set up and test that.
Another variant I'd like to try is bringing this up on a DECmate I
with a DP278. I know it's not _exactly_ like a KL8E, but hopefully
the differences are minor enough that the handler is still one page.
Also, since there is a DKC8AA most PDP-8/a boxes that is rarely used
(sometimes, people use it to drive a line printer instead of buying an
LP8E card - there's an OS/8 handler for that), I look forward to a
parallel-port version of this - even if it takes a $25 microcontroller
to handle the low-level transfers.
-ethan