[Simh] RSTS/E 10.1-L and Paper tape

Mark Pizzolato Mark at infocomm.com
Wed Jan 6 21:08:51 EST 2016


On Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2016-01-07 01:00, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
> > Meanwhile, the 'crude' way to exchange data on most simulators can
> > actually be done with cut and paste in console or telnet sessions.
> 
> Indeed. That also works. But it is really problematic when copying data into
> the simulator, since this goes through the OS terminal driver, which have
> limitations. Pasting in data often leads to data loss in my experience. But
> copying out works fine.

Actually, copying data into a simulator with paste has improved vastly recently.
10's of Kbytes of data pasted at once without data loss.  Give it a try.

> But I still maintain that KERMIT is really the easiest solution to start with.

Given that the user can get beyond the chicken and egg problem of getting 
Kermit on the simulated system to start with...

- Mark


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