[Simh] PDP11 on Simh for public access

[Paul Koning]

> On Jan 23, 2018, at 1:13 PM, Bryan Davies <bryan.e.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ok.  It all boots up nicely on the VT100 and is pretty much indistinguishable from the real thing.
> 
> I'm now looking for something to run on it.  iirc the old RSTS distributions came with a games account -  [20,20] or something like that,  but the V10 distribution doesn't have this.  It only has the [1,2] utilities.
> 
> Can anyone direct me to a source of games or other interesting software?  I've found a few, but presumably they need to be in DSK format in order for Simh to load them as a disk?  Or is there another way to point one of the emulated devices to a file on the host?

You might try the RSTS section of the DECUS library, which should be online somewhere.  I'm not sure where.  That will have assorted games as well as other stuff.  For example, there's a program package called COSAP which is a collection of statistical analysis tools.  That came from my alma mater, and was used there particularly in sociology courses for the students to do (occasionally meaningful) analysis on various survey databases.  It was known for sucking up lots of CPU and disk bandwidth on our machine.

	paul