[Simh] Unix V7 for PDP11

[[GNC] Andreas Cejna]

Hi,
In SIM V3.2-1 support for DHQ11 was added. Is this the module you're
talking about?
Regards
Andreas
>
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 09:04:24 -1000 (HST) Tim Newsham <newsham at lava.net>
> wrote:
>
>
>> It's been a few months, but if I remember correctly the extra tty
>> hardware in simh (dz?) is not supported by v7.  There was a driver
>> in v7 but it has some comments to the effect that the driver is
>> not in working order.  I stuck to using the console.
>
> This is, of course, a reflection on the DZ11 still being rather
> new-fangled when Unix V7 was 'issued'. Bell Labs had been using DH11's,
> so the distribution supported them 'out of the box'.
>
> Rather than trying to fix the V7 DZ11 code, it would be easier to add
> support to SIMH for one of the terminal devices that V7 did support,
> namely the DH11 and DC11 multiplexers, or what might be easier,
> multiple DL11 lines, which would just(!) need a 'stretched' version of
> the console TTY support.
>
> The other way round would be to track down a V7 'sub-species' that did
> have DZ support. They existed - I used to look after a system that ran
> the Heriot-Watt 'small system' code, but although I've got the 11/44
> processor. I didn't manage to get the distribution tapes, unfortunately.
>
> Kevin
>
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