[Simh] Way out idea for simh

[Sampsa Laine]

> On 20 Apr 2016, at 20:45, Ken Cornetet <Ken.Cornetet at kimballelectronics.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

You’re missing my point - the guest OS would not be mounting this as a block device, but would have some kind of file transfer utility to talk to the host OS’s file system.

Sampsa



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