Gee, Johnny .. don't be so negative. Just kidding!
But seriously, this is all such a "blast from the past" .. I didn't start as early as many of you guys, but I certainly remember building many, many servers by getting the machine up far enough that it would run a serial port, then going back to my desk, "telnet-ing" in through an Annex or some other terminal server, and building the thing the rest of the way .. installing the OS, configuring the network, adding storage .. everything. Eric kd5uwl > On Nov 12, 2015, at 7:51 AM, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se> wrote: > >> On 2015-11-12 06:03, Jacob Goense wrote: >> Simh simulates a telnet speaking terminal multiplexer. >> What were the primordial real systems actually doing this? > > Maybe I missed it, but what terminal multiplexor do simh simulate? > Or what do you mean by a terminal multiplexor here? > > Are you simply talking about the fact that simh sets up a telnet port for > incoming connections, and distribute these to multiple simulated serial ports? > > I mean, serial ports on computers are nothing new. And having controllers > with multiple serial ports is also nothing new. > > The fact that simh can simulate these, and map them to telnet ports do not > make a terminal multiplexor of any sort. > > Johnny > > -- > Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus > || on a psychedelic trip > email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books > pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
