[Simh] Simulating the PDP-15/76 Unichannel

[Christian Gauger-Cosgrove]

On 17 March 2015 at 21:41, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm <Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:
> Wasn't the RQDX3's processor a member of the PDP11 family?  We don't try to execute the RQDX3 firmware, but we merely have a device simulator that communicates across the bus just as the RQDX3 did.  Would an approach make sense that implemented the PIREX behaviors in a DR15 simulation (possibly, internally talking to the various UNIBUS device simulations)?
>
> Just a wild idea...
>
I mentioned that back on the GitHub discussion (just to plug it again:
<https://github.com/simh/simh/issues/96>). The PDP-11 side of things
does more than just run PIREX and respond to requests. The PDP-11 also
runs the SPOL11 spooler package, and you can run custom MACRO-11
programs on the '11 loaded and started by the '15.

Really the best way is to find some way of making the simulators talk
to each other. Plus, that framework can be expanded towards other
examples. (KL10 and PDP-11/74, being the ones off the top of my head.)


Regards,
Christian
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