[Simh] PDP11 on Simh for public access

[Bryan Davies]

That's all handy information.  When I've done it I'll make a DSK file so
others can mount it directly into Simh.

Bryan

On 23 Jan 2018 21:39, "Christian Brunschen" <christian at brunschen.com> wrote:

> On 23 January 2018 at 21:34, Mark Abene <phiber at phiber.com> wrote:
>
>> I remember Columbia had an ASCII-encoded kermit binary which you could
>> either print/load as paper tape, or copy/paste into an editor.
>>
>
> The correct tense actually seems to be "has":
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/pdp11.html
>
>> Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-11 was (and is) a 16-bit mini- or
>> microcomputer used in applications ranging from embedded device control to
>> general-purpose timesharing. Several different Kermit programs are
>> available for the PDP-11.
>>
>> *Kermit-11* is the Kermit software for Digital Equipment Corporation
>> PDP-11 operating systems: RT-11, RSX-11, RSTS/E, IAS, P/OS, and (not a DEC
>> OS) TSX+. Kermit-11 was written by Brian Nelson of the University of
>> Toledo, Ohio, circa 1984-89, in PDP-11 assembly language, Macro-11.
>> Separate programs, listed below, are available for other PDP-11 operating
>> systems like UNIX and MUMPS.
>>
>> The Kermit-11 source code is available at our ftp site
>> <ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/> in the kermit/b
>> <ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/b/> subdirectory as k11*.mac, and you
>> can find prebuilt-binaries for various operating systems and configurations
>> inkermit/bin/ <ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/bin/>, as k11*.tsk or
>> k11*.sav. If you are unfamiliar with FTP, or have problems with it, READ
>> THIS <http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftphlp.html>. There are also
>> various utilities -- hex encoders and decoders, etc -- written Macro-11,
>> Fortran, and Basic in the kermit/b directory, along with all the
>> Kermit-11 text files, whose names all start with "k11".
>>
> :)
>
>
>> That's how I loaded KERMIT on my old RSTS/E V7 system.
>>
>
> So that should all be still doable in much the same way now as it was then!
>
>
>> -Mark
>>
>
> // Christian
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:18 PM, Bryan Davies <bryan.e.davies at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> But I've always wondered - how do you get Kermit onto the target machine?
>>>
>>> On 23 January 2018 at 20:16, Jordi Guillaumes Pons <
>>> jg at jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
>>>> jg at jordi.guillaumes.name
>>>> HECnet: BITXOW::JGUILLAUMES
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 23 Jan 2018, at 21:13, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> SAV files would be binaries (RT11 format).  BAS are source files.
>>>>
>>>> There are a number of solutions.  Text files you could load via paper
>>>> tape, with the text file attached to the SIMH tape reader.  That's not as
>>>> good an answer for binaries though it could be made to work.
>>>>
>>>> Magtape or disk are better solutions.  Disk works well if you have a
>>>> program that can write disk images in a format the target OS knows.  That's
>>>> easy in this case; you can use my "flx" (RSTS File Exchange) program to do
>>>> this.  There's an older version written in C, a newer one written in Python
>>>> 3.  For the former, look in svn://akdesign.dyndns.org/flx/branches/V2.6,
>>>> for the latter, in svn://akdesign.dyndns.org/flx/trunk.  There's
>>>> documentation for both in those respective directories.  (Commments and bug
>>>> reports, especially for the new version, would be appreciated.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There’s always kermit…
>>>>
>>>
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