[Simh] Virtual PDP-10 KI10 console panel

[Cory Smelosky]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, Timothe Litt wrote:

> On 23-Oct-14 11:08, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>
> You'd have to implement the DMA channels, controllers, peripherals.
> There is no direct networking device; you'd have to implement the memory
> window to an 11 and/or 8.  And make those emulators attach to it.  And
> you get ANF-10; DECnet only via ANF-10's D(mostly)CP.  You probably end
> up having to do concealed mode - and while some software relied on it,
> the KI version had bugs that were never fixed.  IIRC, monitor support
> ended with 6.03A; some of 7.00's SMP was developed on KIs, but it was
> not finished and KI support was removed from the monitor (with TECO
> macros) shortly thereafter.  The only fun reason to do it is
> multiprocessing -- and the KL is where we got that right.  Plus the KL
> has a direct ethernet adapter (NIA20) and the ability to support DECnet
> (and TCP/IP).
>

As much as I like KLH10...I still would love KL10 support in SIMH...only 
need one simulation package...plus SIMH has the framework for extra 
devices already present.

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