[Simh] Way out idea for simh

[Sampsa Laine]

> On 20 Apr 2016, at 20:20, Ken Cornetet <Ken.Cornetet at kimballelectronics.com> wrote:
> 
> You don’t need the notion of mountable disk. The disk would appear attached to the guest OS 100% of the time.
> 
> The guest doesn’t need to be able to mount foreign file systems. The guest OS only considers that block device as a seekable collection of blocks.  All file movement between the LIF block device and the OS’s native file system would be by a userland  utility.
> 
> True, this utility would have to be developed for every guest OS running under simh, but if the file system was simple enough, the code would be trivial.
> 

Why an FTP server though, why not just a block device that points at a directory on the host OS?

Also, Kermit.

Sampsa



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