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--></style></head><body lang=EN-HK link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Now we can have a super luxury machine with 4MB of RAM and 2 x 161MB disk!? And two terminals!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I suppose SLIP/slattach ought to be in order then?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Awesome job dude!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:web@loomcom.com">Seth Morabito</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, 18 December 2017 4:02 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com">simh@trailing-edge.com</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[Simh] 3B2 Emulator - Update</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hello everyone,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I wanted to give a brief update on the AT&T 3B2/400 emulator.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As of the latest push to the SIMH repository on GitHub, the emulator</p><p class=MsoNormal>is free of all known bugs, and the System Board is feature-complete.</p><p class=MsoNormal>That certainly doesn't mean there aren't other bugs to find, I just</p><p class=MsoNormal>haven't run into them yet! The latest changes are:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> - Added support for the CONTTY serial port, so now you can have two</p><p class=MsoNormal> sessions logged in at the same time, or use Kermit to transfer</p><p class=MsoNormal> files back and forth between the emulator and another</p><p class=MsoNormal> computer. UUCP is probably also possible, but I haven't tried it</p><p class=MsoNormal> yet.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> - Added support for 30MB WREN I and 161MB Maxtor hard disks, in</p><p class=MsoNormal> addition to the default 72MB WREN II drive.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> - Fixed several nasty bugs.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have also reworked and rewritten large portions of the simulator</p><p class=MsoNormal>home page at:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> https://loomcom.com/3b2/emulator</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you haven't given it a try yet, please do, and let me know what</p><p class=MsoNormal>your experience is like.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now that the base system board is emulated, the next step as far as</p><p class=MsoNormal>I'm concerned is to build a generic add-on card framework so that I</p><p class=MsoNormal>can emulate expansion cards such as PORTS (4 serial lines + 1 parallel</p><p class=MsoNormal>line), NI (10 Mbit Ethernet), and CTC (23 MB cartridge tape).</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think my first target will be PORTS, since I've already built all</p><p class=MsoNormal>the code needed for the DUART chips that it uses, and it would be nice</p><p class=MsoNormal>to have additional serial ports hanging off the emulator beyond just</p><p class=MsoNormal>console and contty.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-Seth</p><p class=MsoNormal>--</p><p class=MsoNormal>Seth Morabito</p><p class=MsoNormal>web@loomcom.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>Simh mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>Simh@trailing-edge.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>