7 Oct
2020
7 Oct
'20
7:14 a.m.
On 10/7/2020 8:41 AM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 5:07 AM Peter Allan via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hercules does have 2703 emulation, and bisync emulation does seem to be
present in SimH. I think both support some level of TCP, so you might
be able to lash them up that way - but I would expect some hiccups along
the way. But that would indeed still leave the software question from
the original post.
I remembered reading a man page for 2780/3780 emulation under UNIX back
in the day (turns out it was for AT&T PWB UNIX), and found it:
http://quintile.net/pwb/rje_guide.pdf Manual
Code seems to exist in
http://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/USDL/spencer_pwb.tar.gz
(And maybe other copies of PWB UNIX at tuhs.org)
And then there is this, too, from 15-17 years ago, which would take work
to move to the PDP-11, of course, as this is a PC program.
https://hercules-390.yahoogroups.narkive.com/gGgUdOKm/rje80-3780-emulator-f…
It still seems to exist in the files area of hercules-390 in groups.io
under the "Yahoo Group files archive".
I'd love to do the same thing with a UNIVAC 1004 talking to an 1108
(actually, an IBM 1410 with a telegraph attachment emulating the 1004),
but I don't think the current modern OS/2200 emulation would support it. ;)
JRJ
I am looking for the following software products
for a PDP-11, ideally to
be run on RSX-11M.
RJE/HASP
2780/3780 Protocol Emulator
I used to do this with specialty hardware...
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/softwareResults/Software_Results_Comboard_Broc…
...
My aim is to be able to submit a remote job from a simulated PDP-11 on simh
to a simulated IBM/370 on Hercules. The products that I mentioned seem the
obvious way to do this, but anything that works would be helpful.
I think the idea is fantastic. At the very least, after you identify
a suitable software package for your target, there would need to be
emulation written for whatever sync serial devices that the package
can talk to, for the PDP-11 side. I have no idea what sort of sync
serial emulation is provided by Hercules, but if you can configure a
TCP socket that pretends to be a BSC port, then that's what you'd
need.
This is eminently do-able, but would likely require a fair bit of
plumbing to get operational.
-ethan