> On Jan 18, 2018, at 5:12 AM, Lars Brinkhoff <l...@nocrew.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I wrote a GitHub issue about this, but maybe it's better to bring it up
> for discussion on the mailing list. So I'll copy the text here:
>
> Richard Cornwell's KA10 simulator is getting ready. At MIT, there were
> PDP-11s connected to the PDP-10 memory and I/O busses. The 11s acted as
> dedicated I/O processors. Some of us are interested in recreating
> configurations similar to this. For example, MIT-AI had a PDP-11
> connected to control a number of graphical terminals called Knight TVs.
> And another PDP-11 for CHAOS networking.
>
> To hook up separate simulator processes this way, I suppose there should
> be some kind of bus interface for SIMH. The interface would have to
> support memory transfers, interrupt signals, etc.
>
> Would it be feasible to create such a bus interface?
I think this was done already for PDP-15 to PDP-11 hookup, but I don't know any
of the details. It seems like something that would be easier with threads
rather than processes, but it should be doable either way.
paul
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