[Simh] Subject:, Re: smallest pdp-11 that can run TECO and sockets(*)?

[Michael Bloom]

Richard,

We were initially given two requirements, and a goal:

1) The design will require using TECO to massage data.
2) The design will require providing file service to (at least) one other host, so some form of bi-directional communication must be available.

GOAL: The goal is "to do a crazy experiment",  that may depend on said experiment being run on a real or simulated PDP-11.


In other posts, we have established a number of different ways of 
satisfying the two stated requirements without a PDP-11 also being 
absolutely necessary.

What remains elusive, to at least some of us, is an unnamed third 
requirement that would make a pdp-11 necessary for the experiment to run 
as desired. Can you elaborate on this? (without revealing anything 
proprietary, of course)

What aspect of the experiment requires a pdp-11 architecture?  (an 
example of this aspect might be needing to assemble MACRO-11 files 
generated by massaging data with TECO).

- michael


On 07/04/2012 10:34 PM, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
> Subject:
> Re: [Simh] smallest pdp-11 that can run TECO and sockets(*)?
> From:
> Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
> Date:
> 07/04/2012 10:34 PM
>
> To:
> SIMH <simh at trailing-edge.com>
>
>
> In article<4FF4DEE5.301 at softjar.se>,
>      Johnny Billquist<bqt at softjar.se>  writes:
>
> >  Besides, you mentioned before that having a real TCP/IP was not actually
> >  required, and that having another machine do the TCP/IP part, while your
> >  PDP-11 just talked over a serial port would be ok.
> Yes, but it still needs to run TECO and serve files.  So obviously it
> can't be a 4K PDP-11/03, because AFAIK, that can't run TECO.

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