[Simh] Attach tar to tape device and access it from v7 in simh

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Thu Nov 9 03:10:35 EST 2017


On 2017-11-09 07:51, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>> I bet that would be written in some ANSI C, for which you won't find a
>> C compiler for V7...
> 
> GCC has a PDP-11 backend, so maybe you can cross compile it.

That would depend on if calling conventions, register conventions, a.out 
format and so on are compatible between V7 and whatever format gcc uses. 
Not to mention you also need all the V7 libraries where you do the cross 
compile. I suspect this might be a bit much to deal with for Will...

   Johnny

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