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

Will Senn will.senn at gmail.com
Wed Jan 6 21:38:39 EST 2016



On 1/6/16 8:27 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2016-01-07 03:08, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
>>> 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.
>> Uh? Really. How recent do I need it to be then?
>> I'm on:
>>    PDP-11 simulator V4.0-0 Beta        git commit id: e9b312f2
> Well, git commit id: e9b312f2 was back on June 6, 2014.  Not too many folks would call that recent.  :-)
>
> Recent being in the last month or so.
>
> - Mark
>
>
The changes Mark made in November were life changing for pasting :).

Will


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