[HECnet] SIMH PDP-10 + Networking?

[Rob Jarratt]

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Sent: 23 December 2012 17:38
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Subject: Re: [HECnet] SIMH PDP-10 + Networking?


On 23 Dec 2012, at 05:29, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
<jg at jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote:

Al 22/12/12 18:23, En/na Cory Smelosky ha escrit:
Is it at all possible to do networking in SIMH's PDP-10 emulator?
No. SIMH emulates a KS10, and IIRC there was no DPNI support for that
machine (there was another network interface which worked for ITS, but not
for TOPS-10, and anyway it is not emulated in SIMH).

I wonder if simh will ever add support for emulating a KL10.


I would love to see this too. However, I believe this is a non-trivial
undertaking. It is one that I have in the back of my mind, but no plans to
start anything any time soon






Turns out I need to reinstall TOPS-10. ;)

So I either need to:
1). Stage TOPS-10 in SIMH then move to KLH10's KS emulator (seems to
uses different disk format) 2). Install TOPS-10 directly in klh10
(How would I change tapes during runtime using KLH10?) 3). Not have
networking. ;)
There is a built KL TOPS-10 image with network support at
http://klh10.trailing-edge.com/twonky-a11120.tar. Its not so fun as
building
it yourself, but it works. Of course you can do it yourself. And to swich
tapes
you go to KLH10>> prompt (the default key is CTRL-\) and issue a "devmount
mta0 tape_image_file.tap and then a continue command, very similar to
simh.

BTW you will need to do a MONGEN to set your DECNET address :).

Doing a MONGEN is proving a little challenging. However! I've learned my
way around a bit more to the point I can extract the monitor sources.   I
just
kept hitting a little roadblock due to not having SETSRC. :)

I /think/ i can work around that by extracting the sources to DSKA and
then
using PATH (what's the appropriate way to use PATH? the monitor
generation documentation only mentions SETSRC)




Is configuring networking in KLH10's KS emulation the same as using
it's
KL emulation? devdef nib et cetera?

AFAIK the syntax of the config file varies a little bit since the KS has
a
different addressing method.