[Simh] Way out idea for simh

[Ken Cornetet]

Other than the OS on the old Atari 800 family of computers, I don’t know of any OS that supports a device to which you can supply a file name and then read or write data.

Most OSes view disk devices as a collection of blocks.

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To: Ken Cornetet <Ken.Cornetet at kimballelectronics.com>
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Subject: Re: [Simh] Way out idea for simh


On 20 Apr 2016, at 20:26, Ken Cornetet <Ken.Cornetet at kimballelectronics.com<mailto:Ken.Cornetet at kimballelectronics.com>> wrote:

Kermit is  not available/usable for every guest OS under simh.


Fair enough.


I do not understand what you mean by a block device that points at a directory on the host OS.

OK, so instead of an FTP server, you have a special device that a guest OS program can use to access the host OS.

Let’s call this device HOST0: and you’d have something like this is in the .ini file:

attach HOST0: /home/foobar/simhdir

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