DL11 configuration for pdp11gui

[Andrew Burton]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mouse" <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: DL11 configuration for pdp11gui


> >> Mostly PDP11GUI does not care, either 7b or 8b.
> > I'm kind of surprised to hear that; I assumed that PDP11GUI can
> > download binaries, and for that, 8-bit is kind of necessary?
>
> Depends on the protocol.  While it's not a PDP-11, my own Dreamcast
> serial-line code sends binaries over a serial line as hex.  It doubles
> the octet count sent (for the data - there's some other overhead too)
> but requiring nothing beyond plain text of the comm channel.
>

I have to ask, being a Sega fan, but what have you been using your Dreamcast
for?


Regards,
Andrew Burton
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www.aliensrcooluk.com