[Simh] A CDROM/DVD question in SIMH

[Vorländer, Martin]

> In the SIMH setup (vax.ini), the "CDROM" drive is mapped to the image  
> file. Is there anyway to map it to the actual CDROM drive on the  
> underlying host (be in Mac or PC or ?) so one does not have to make  
> an image file of each and every CD being used?

Under *ix, you can map it to the /dev/cdrom device file (or whatever
it's called in that specific *ix flavor). As there is no such thing
under Windows, you have to live with the image files there.
 
> Can one map it to an image file of a DVD ?

No idea, sorry.

cu,
  Martin
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