[Simh] PDP10 ethernet?

Rich Alderson simh at alderson.users.panix.com
Thu Sep 4 14:03:50 EDT 2008


> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 22:22:13 -0700
> From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>

> At 9:16 PM -0700 9/3/08, Zachary Kline wrote:
>> I was wondering what the status of PDP10 ethernet support was? 
>> (I've an interest in ITS and other operating systems for it, but 
>> would like ethernet if at all possible.
>> (I've read that the SIMH delua support is just a stub.)
>> Any info would be appreciated.

> I believe SIMH only emulates the KS10, and as I recall that hardware 
> never really supported ethernet.  You might have better luck with the 
> KLH10 emulator.  You might find the following page of use, though I 
> really need to find time to update it.

> http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/pdp10emu.html

For that matter, does *ITS* support Ethernet?  (I honestly don't know.)  The
AILab hackers went to the trouble of creating a Unibus-based Chaosnet interface
for their KS10s, rather than Ethernet.

                                                                Rich Alderson



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