[Simh] Way out idea for simh

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-04-21 11:05, Dave Wade wrote:
>> -----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.

You mean like a serial line? Something one could also pass data over? ;-)

>> 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...

Indeed. And if there is a KERMIT implementation for the system, it will 
also do this translation for you...

	Johnny