[Simh] Oddball platform as SIMH/pdp11 host

[Henry Bent]

Isn't this a software question rather than a hardware one?  What operating
systems does the Galileo platform support, and how do they expose the
ports?  Attaching SIMH to a hardware serial port is trivial given the right
OS.

-Henry

On 5 June 2017 at 22:20, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> Can the SIMH project materials, such as the PDP11 emulator be built
> and even managed on an Intel Galileo gen 2 ( or the gen 1) platform?
>
> This is an Intel QUARK SOC platform leveraged such that it's output
> and input is in the form of the Arduino families.
>
> However networking is already physically present, and there are two
> serial ports, the main one, and the classic one found as digital pins
> 0 and 1.
>
> Ideally what I'd like is to have the thing pose as an appropriate
> PDP11, and deliver its terminal via the second serial output.
>
> For digital I/O i'd eventually like to tease the thing to allow its
> eight regular pins to become the ones for an emulated DR-11 or DR-11C
> board.
>
> I do know that the latest release of the E11 product does make use of
> one company's digital I/O board to become either one of those. And I'm
> not even sure how to get that product to work in what I'm reasonably
> sure SIMH could do.
>
> But one problem at a time.....
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