[Simh] SIMH/DECWindows/Debian

[dott.Piergiorgio d' Errico]

Il 12/09/2012 11:36, Lennert Van Alboom ha scritto:
> The more obvious way would be configuring DECWindows, then connecting to it via
> xdmcp. There's a few apps that can do this on Linux - Xnest and Xephyr are the
> ones that come to mind.
>
> With Xnest, you just do
>
> $ Xnest -query my.vax.somedomain :1
>
> And poof, instant (windowed) VAX loginscreen, if it's properly configured on
> VMS side. I *think* I had to use Xephyr to run fullscreen and with reduced
> security though, when I connected to my VMS desktop.
>
> Or maybe I'm just mis-interpreting what you're trying to do :-)

I have interpreted Mr. Miller's idea as using the Linux host also as 
uber-thick X client terminal..... whose is a *really* interesting idea.

The majority of the systems emulated by SIMH seems to have "external" 
graphic system, the CPU/mainframe handling graphics thru IOT (DEC 
parlance) or outputting graphic instructions to the graphic hardware.

so, I think that graphic emulation (and spacewar ;) ) can be emulated in 
a SIMH environment in a conceptually simple manner, using the already 
implemented telnet support, and carving the graphic support as X client.

Is an idea worth of a more deep scrutiny ?

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

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