Questions regarding a PDP11/34a - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

14 Jun 2001

On 2001-06-14 classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org said to kees.stravers(a)iae.nl
...
   I remember
someone asking about loading software over a serial line Thinking I had on the
subject is that it would be trivial,
given the 11's console abilities (set address, deposit byte)
to take machine code and have a PC program turn it into a
stream of Deposit instructions, heck it could be a 'vi' macro. 
You might want to take a look at VTserver, a program used to install 
Ultrix-11 on an empty PDP-11 via the console port and one regular 
serial line. The source is available.
ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/pub/PDP-11/Vtserver/

A WIN32 version of VTserver is at
http://users.safeaccess.com/engdahl/software.htm

The program is still very much in development.
Kees.

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