[Simh] DECserver (terminal server) emulation?

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Wed Apr 12 20:27:56 EDT 2017


> On Apr 12, 2017, at 2:22 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> The DS500 is a PDP-11, true. But it's also the model that don't have any local storage, and thus uses MOP in way more ways than any other DS, which might be a problem unless you have some machine with a proper MOP implementation.
> The MOP server that exists for Unix systems will not do. It only supports booting.

What else do you need?  MOP doesn't do much more than that.  Config data download?

In any case, MOP is a trivial protocol, fixing omissions in an existing MOP implementation is pretty easy.

Hm.  mop.py?  That would be nicely portable and easy to create...

	paul




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