1 Sep
2004
1 Sep
'04
6 a.m.
Hi,
"John Allain" <allain(a)panix.com> said:
Being able to meet Bob Supnik personally at the VCFe
(Thanks to
Sellam), I bid any reservations against using SIMH farewell.
Have had a hell of a nice time since then. Turns out my oldish PC (4.5
years) has the same speed as my best microVAX (<5Vups), as an aside.
As I understand it, the way to get a decent screen up under the current
SIMH arrangement is to run it networked to another machine with either
X11 services or rlogin and there you can get the screen that you want.
What I'm looking for I think is a command shell with VT100 support that
I can run SIMH in locally. Alternately I could just connect the actual
terminal to a serial line. Anybody do this?
I have a headless Linux* box running simh to which is attached a terminal
(actually a Mac SE, but a real terminal works fine), once logged in and
simh is started it looks pretty much like a real PDP-11.
My 486 DX4 connected to a Qume QVT103 and running DOS & E11 looks more
convincing though...blinkenlites even :-)
* An old Dell Optiplex 166MMX running a cut-down Red-Hat 5.2.
Linux is the answer... :-)
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!