2 Mar
2008
2 Mar
'08
9:12 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Sun, Mar 02,
2008 at 07:18:51AM -0800, Bob Armstrong wrote:
All true, although it might not be as bad as it
sounds. There are a lot
of people on this list, and some of them used old DEC computers and
operating systems. Some of them might already know how to write a driver
for one of these OSes - get a group of them together and you'll have all the
old OSes covered.
True, but there are a lot of dusty neurons to polish before much progress
could be made. I haven't written a device driver for DEC hardware in
over 15 years (I've worked on Ultrix, and VMS 4.x and VMS 5.x, myself).
... the first
thing you should do is
hack up simh to include emulation of your proposed new "RQATA" interface
card; then you could start writing drivers before the hardware was even
done, and simh is a great tool for debugging the driver software.
That's an excellent suggestion (and I say that having helped Bob Supnik
debug one of _his_ drivers long ago).