For comparison, this sort of sounds like plan9 folder sharing in qemu http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup <http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup> > On Apr 20, 2016, at 1:36 PM, Ken Cornetet > <ken.corne...@kimballelectronics.com> wrote: > > This is a great mechanism, but it requires that the guest OS have some native > support (or be modified to support) some sort of device where you can pass a > file name and then read and write data. > > I actually plan to implement just such a beast on the hp2100. The plan is to > create a custom microcode instruction that will take operands describing the > desired host operation perform the appropriate action. Operations would > include file operations (wild card globbing, reads, writes) and possibly even > socket operations. > > It would be lovely if this sort of mechanism could be worked into simh in > general, but given the wildly different ways this would have to grafted into > each emulated machine's archetechture, I can't really see it happening. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Sampsa Laine > Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 12:52 PM > To: simh@trailing-edge.com > Subject: Re: [Simh] Way out idea for simh > > I say forget the FTP server, create a device which can access a directory on > the host OS via a special device and then code file transfer utilities for > each OS that needs it, like the SIMH Altair + CP/M thing.. > > Sampsa > > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
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