[Simh] DECserver (terminal server) emulation?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2017-04-13 19:40, Paul Koning wrote:
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>> On Apr 13, 2017, at 3:34 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
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>> On 2017-04-13 02:27, Paul Koning wrote:
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>>>> On Apr 12, 2017, at 2:22 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>> What else do you need?  MOP doesn't do much more than that.  Config data download?
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>> Actually, it does. MOP can do reading and writing of data to files as well.
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> Not really.  There's a load protocol and a dump protocol.  Load can reference the load image by ID string if enabled, but that doesn't make it a general file access protocol.

I agree that I would not call it a generic file access protocol. But 
still, this is how the DS500 load and store the configuration.

	Johnny

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