[Simh] terminal multiplexers

[Eric Smith]

Gee, Johnny .. don't be so negative.

Just kidding!

But seriously, this is all such a "blast from the past" .. I didn't
start as early as many of you guys, but I certainly remember building
many, many servers by getting the machine up far enough that it would
run a serial port, then going back to my desk, "telnet-ing" in through
an Annex or some other terminal server, and building the thing the
rest of the way .. installing the OS, configuring the network, adding
storage .. everything.

Eric kd5uwl

> On Nov 12, 2015, at 7:51 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-11-12 06:03, Jacob Goense wrote:
>> Simh simulates a telnet speaking terminal multiplexer.
>> What were the primordial real systems actually doing this?
>
> Maybe I missed it, but what terminal multiplexor do simh simulate?
> Or what do you mean by a terminal multiplexor here?
>
> Are you simply talking about the fact that simh sets up a telnet port for incoming connections, and distribute these to multiple simulated serial ports?
>
> I mean, serial ports on computers are nothing new. And having controllers with multiple serial ports is also nothing new.
>
> The fact that simh can simulate these, and map them to telnet ports do not make a terminal multiplexor of any sort.
>
>    Johnny
>
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