On 23 January 2018 at 21:34, Mark Abene <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > 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 < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Jordi Guillaumes i Pons >>> [email protected] >>> HECnet: BITXOW::JGUILLAUMES >>> >>> >>> >>> On 23 Jan 2018, at 21:13, Paul Koning <[email protected]> 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… >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Simh mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh >
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