[Simh] Physical serial ports and SIMH

[Cory Smelosky]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Jörg Hoppe wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm in need of accessing physical tty's from SimH now too, see this
> BeagleBone installation with 4x RS232:
>
> http://retrocmp.com/projects/pdp-11-70-panel-on-blinkenbone
>
> One idea was to let SimH simulate additional serial ports over telnet as
> usual.
> Access to physical ttys should be made outside SimH with some
> "telnet-server-to-tty" bridge on the BeagleBone Linux itself.
> For MS-Windows such solutions exist, search for "IPCOMSERVER".
> But I found nothing similar on Linux.
>
> Did anybody researched in that direction?
>

Recent (read: git) SIMH builds allow you to attach the console to a 
physical port.

> Joerg
>
>
>
> Am 26.06.2013 17:01, schrieb Gregg Levine:
>> Hello!
>> Right now I am tooling up to try out an idea or two concerning the
>> PDP-11 emulation. This is to be run on a Raspberry Pi running the
>> latest release of their Raspberry specific Debian release. (Also fully
>> updated and upgraded.)
>>
>> The device has the two USB connections ostensibly for a keyboard and
>> mouse, but one gentleman I know managed to make use of the serial port
>> function on one of them, and attached a USB to serial adapter to one
>> of the connections. So obviously I can connect two adapters to the two
>> ports there.
>>
>> But what about the serial port embedded on the GPIO connectors? Can I
>> make use of that one?
>>
>> I know normally that SIMH emulates a chosen computer and only fairly
>> recently with some of them do communicate with the outside world via
>> Ethernet, but for what I'm planning and working on, it seems to be a
>> good fit. Should it work I might be able to upscale the working
>> programs to Mr Wilson's product running on an X86 board instead, or
>> even an actual PDP-11 model.....
>> -----
>> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
>> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
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