[Simh] Way out idea for simh

[Dave Wade]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Veit,
> Holger
> Sent: 21 April 2016 08:56
> To: simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: Re: [Simh] Way out idea for simh
> 
> I think this is missing the actual problem. If a simh supported machine has
> some kind of (paper/magnetic) tape oder disk device, they are almost always
> physical files on the host system which can be attached/detached by simh
> console commands. 

So if there was an interface so that the emulated computer could issue console commands this would IMHO actually be more usefull than access to the file system.


> And for some special cases with IBM
> iron, there were native EBCDIC converters.
> 

There are actually a lot of systems that don't use ASCII, IBM1130, IBM1620, GE-600 Honeywell H-200 series, IBM1401...

> Holger
> 
Dave